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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: librarylady on August 20, 2009, 02:22:26 pm
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Can anyone help me find out anything about an interesting lamp I purchased at a consignment store about five years ago? It has a sort of genie lamp with a bronze flame, a glass tube marked with roman numerals I - XII (the glass is green between numbers VII and VIII, through number XII), and the lamp has a bronze eagle on top of the tube and a bronze flame on top. I have stared at this odd lamp for years, wondering if it's just a collection of "stuff" someone used to put together a lamp, or it has some significance. Thanks for your help!
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A picture or two?
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Tried...File was too big -- but it was just a digital picture!
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A picture or two?
I tried, but the file size was too large for even one digital picture. Can I email a picture?
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LibraryLady, if you email it to me, I'll reduce the file size for you. talesofthesevenseas@hotmail.com
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Does it resemble this? He made lots of odd lamps!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.willndesign.com/images/genie_lamp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.willndesign.com/product.htm&usg=__LTrYBg4GcRUKLIUsS61hTOj4VYM=&h=199&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=1&sig2=QPoKhkW1PCpp2aPZqyi7sg&um=1&tbnid=OKu72gN7j24OZM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgenie%2Blamp%2Bwith%2Bflame%2Bniskanen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=2b-NSqr3OoawMPv7pbAK (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.willndesign.com/images/genie_lamp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.willndesign.com/product.htm&usg=__LTrYBg4GcRUKLIUsS61hTOj4VYM=&h=199&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=1&sig2=QPoKhkW1PCpp2aPZqyi7sg&um=1&tbnid=OKu72gN7j24OZM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgenie%2Blamp%2Bwith%2Bflame%2Bniskanen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=2b-NSqr3OoawMPv7pbAK)
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Does it resemble this? He made lots of odd lamps!
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.willndesign.com/images/genie_lamp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.willndesign.com/product.htm&usg=__LTrYBg4GcRUKLIUsS61hTOj4VYM=&h=199&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=1&sig2=QPoKhkW1PCpp2aPZqyi7sg&um=1&tbnid=OKu72gN7j24OZM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgenie%2Blamp%2Bwith%2Bflame%2Bniskanen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=2b-NSqr3OoawMPv7pbAK (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.willndesign.com/images/genie_lamp.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.willndesign.com/product.htm&usg=__LTrYBg4GcRUKLIUsS61hTOj4VYM=&h=199&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=1&sig2=QPoKhkW1PCpp2aPZqyi7sg&um=1&tbnid=OKu72gN7j24OZM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=116&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgenie%2Blamp%2Bwith%2Bflame%2Bniskanen%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=2b-NSqr3OoawMPv7pbAK)
No, I'm sorry, it does not. But thank you for trying!
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LibraryLady, if you email it to me, I'll reduce the file size for you. talesofthesevenseas@hotmail.com
Okay, I've done that. Thank you for your help!
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Here you go LibraryLady! I have a question, is the green stuff inside the glass liquid? I'm guessing it functions as a barometer reading the barometric pressure? Or is it glass or plastic that slides up and down mechanically?
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x124/talesofthesevenseas/GenieLamp1.jpg)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x124/talesofthesevenseas/GenieLamp2.jpg)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x124/talesofthesevenseas/GenieLamp3.jpg)
(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x124/talesofthesevenseas/GenieLamp4.jpg)
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It's supposed to represent a fluid lamp.
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OK I get it, so on a real fluid lamp the numbers would tell you how much oil was left. I've only seen the type that hold the fluid in the body of the lamp. I guess on this lamp that is where the genie goes! ;D
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OK I get it, so on a real fluid lamp the numbers would tell you how much oil was left. I've only seen the type that hold the fluid in the body of the lamp. I guess on this lamp that is where the genie goes! ;D
Thank you to everyone who responded -- I had NO idea about the fluid lamp...There actually isn't any liquid in the lamp and nothing slides, but it makes good sense that it's supposed to measure oil. I was wondering about the eagle, but maybe that is just decorative. Were these made in the 1960s or 1970s?
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I would suggest. 1976
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It's a strange mix of styles, the American eagle with the middle-eastern fantasy kinda thing, with a few Roman numerals to boot! It makes me wonder what inspired it. I'm thinking LSD. LOL! But seriously it is fun and certainly a conversation starter! I think its one of those things like Alice in Wonderland. There is really no explaining it, you just have to "go with it"!!
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Obviously someone was inspired to make it...and some company was inspired to produce it. Doesn't look handmade/one of a kind - at least from the pics!
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It certainly does look as though someone was really into the mix 'n match mood.
The crystal fluid lamp pictured is London, circa 1859. The 'genie' lamp was bronze/marble candelabra converted to electricity. Your lamp maker took it one step (or two) further. ;)