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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: ayden2008 on August 22, 2013, 08:54:07 AM
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I recently got this what seems to be very old antique oil lamp. Like fun the primitive age. I see other old oil lamps online but can't find any like this. It has a hallmark at the bottom which I included a picture of and seems to be a figure of a man straddling the wick part of the oil lamp. Its about 3" in height x 4 1/2" in width. Can anybody please help me with more information on my find!?
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Appears to be a chalkware reproduction of a whale oil lamp !!
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Definitely an oil lamp.
However, there are so many out there.... Looks to be a "modern" item with the imprint.
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Is the inside of this glazed ?? If not it wouldn`t be an oil lamp because any clay material such as unglazed porcelain, pottery, stoneware would be porous and would soak up the oil !!
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No its not glazed mart. And so maybe its a repop that they did with the hallmark to pass it off as real?
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Or,, not a lamp and something else entirely !!
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That doesn't look like a man but some kind of animal. It looks like it should have been to be painted in detail. Like Mart said, it may have been intended for a different purpose but I do not know what.
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If it were an oil lamp then it looks as if it has hardly, if ever, been used. You would expect some sort of carbon deposit from the flame.
Hello again one and all!
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Yay !!! Mario, your back !!v Sure is good to have you back on the forum !! We (I) have missed you !! Sent you some emails a few years back,, did you get them ??
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Now that's a name from the past. How are you mario?
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Hope he comes back and catches us up !!
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Yes, it's been years. Wonder where his been?
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I think this was made in Italy whatever it is !! The mark on the bottom looks to me like a building !! What is the one in Rome with the statues, kind of circular ?? My brain is on vacation !! At least that's what I see !!
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Are you thinking of the Colosseum, Mart?
Looking at that stamp, I am thinking more down the lines of the Parthenon, on the Acropolis.
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Not Colosseum,,its bigger Parthenon I think but its been a while since world history class !! Will have to go look !!
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Looks like the Porch of the Maidens from the Acropolis in Athens.
If true, it obviously points to a Greek origin for this item.
Female figures holding up a portico roof are known as carayatids. I think the original on the Acropolis was designed by Iktinos and Calicrates.
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Looks like the Porch of the Maidens from the Acropolis in Athens.
If true, it obviously points to a Greek origin for this item.
Female figures holding up a portico roof are known as carayatids. I think the original on the Acropolis was designed by Iktinos and Calicrates.
That's it !!! That's the one I couldn`t remember !! Acropolis !!
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Looks like the Porch of the Maidens from the Acropolis in Athens.
If true, it obviously points to a Greek origin for this item.
Female figures holding up a portico roof are known as carayatids. I think the original on the Acropolis was designed by Iktinos and Calicrates.
That's it !!! That's the one I couldn`t remember !! Acropolis !!
The Acropolis is the actual ancient 'city', and the building that we all generally think of when we hear 'acropolis' is actually the Parthenon, just one of the buildings that make up the Acropolis, a Temple built to worship the Goddess Athena .... I'm half Greek and half Italian, and trod those ancient stones every summer for probably the first 10 years of my life (some might suggest not long after the initial construction!) ;D ;D ;D
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It could even be the Temple of Diana in Rome? As was ... not as is.
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I just remember the statues across the front !!
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That's it !!! That's the one I couldn`t remember !! Acropolis !!
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So where's my karma point Ms. Mart???? ;D ;D
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Was eating a sandwich and trying to keep my trees from dying !! ? You got it now !!
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Was eating a sandwich and trying to keep my trees from dying !! ? You got it now !!
well maybe if you spent more time watering..than you do scoffing....your trees would,nt be dying..... ;D
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and whilst we are nowon the subject of temples....here,s one for you.....all you have to guess is...where.....
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Nashville Tennessee!
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Oh, and thanks Mart! ;)
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Nashville Tennessee!
nope....
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Edinburgh Scotland!
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Edinburgh Scotland!
nope....not there either.....here,s a skiffy.......view of interior......
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A Strauss waltz and a table full of pastries would make a trip to Vienna complete after visiting this faux temple. Aye?
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Ah, then it must be the Walhalla Temple outside Regensburg in Bavaria! Good old German neo-classicism!!
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A Strauss waltz and a table full of pastries would make a trip to Vienna complete after visiting this faux temple. Aye?
well, you,d be in the wrong country then..... ;D
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no brownie point...this time....but if you get the next one...i might give you a bit o, ma home-made clootie.....where is this....
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My guess !! Bottom one, Germany or Switzerland !!
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not faraway....but not close enough.....and here,s another..that may, bring a smile to yer moosh.... ;D
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The Giger gargoyle is on Paisley Abbey near Glasgow.....Scotlan d, of course. Not Glasgow, Missouri (and there IS one ya know!) ;D
Now, how about a good karma point EACH for that and the Walhalla Temple near Regensburg.....'cause I KNOW I"m right!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Denmark ??
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Denmark ??
nope....
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Can nobody see the post at the top of the page? ::)
Regensburg.....Bava ria....GERMANY! ;D
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The Giger gargoyle is on Paisley Abbey near Glasgow.....Scotlan d, of course. Not Glasgow, Missouri (and there IS one ya know!) ;D
Now, how about a good karma point EACH for that and the Walhalla Temple near Regensburg.....'cause I KNOW I"m right!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Well!!....if you cast yer mind back..a few posts you,ll see that..i never said anything about karma....and seeing as how..i had to give you a pointer on the Walhalla,...and ..the alien gargoyle was a tad too easy....seeing as how i boobed when i named the pic ...and it was,nt rocket science to google alien gargoyle....i think that if i was to award you..2 K,s...i,d be doing you an injustice.....there fore....as promised....you get one of these.....which as everyone here in Scotland...knows... .is far better..than 2 Karma Chameleons.....cos after all...are,nt we here giving our time and effort....for nil consideration..... ;D
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Can nobody see the post at the top of the page? ::)
Regensburg.....Bava ria....GERMANY! ;D
Regensburg im Bayern....Deutschla nd....to be exact.....
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You didn't have to SAY anything about karma points.....Most of us are just happy to do it, knowarimean?
as the Fairies said:
Don't talk about it....just DO IT!
And thanks for the as-promised photo.
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Can nobody see the post at the top of the page? ::)
Regensburg.....Bava ria....GERMANY! ;D
Regensburg im Bayern....Deutschla nd....to be exact.....
Klar, naturlich.
I posted in English, because to paraphrase John Lennon: "English is the language of the world...yes it is, yes it is...."
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well,.yes...i,d agree in principle.....if..t hey could spell the words properly.....
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The Giger gargoyle is on Paisley Abbey near Glasgow.....Scotlan d, of course. Not Glasgow, Missouri (and there IS one ya know!) ;D
Now, how about a good karma point EACH for that and the Walhalla Temple near Regensburg.....'cause I KNOW I"m right!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
Well!!....if you cast yer mind back..a few posts you,ll see that..i never said anything about karma....and seeing as how..i had to give you a pointer on the Walhalla,...and ..the alien gargoyle was a tad too easy....seeing as how i boobed when i named the pic ...and it was,nt rocket science to google alien gargoyle....i think that if i was to award you..2 K,s...i,d be doing you an injustice.....there fore....as promised....you get one of these.....which as everyone here in Scotland...knows... .is far better..than 2 Karma Chameleons.....cos after all...are,nt we here giving our time and effort....for nil consideration..... ;D
Injustice.....and here I was awhile back, starting threads for my bullyboy Wullieboy about how he's contributed so much, and awarding him karma points and everything.
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A Bullyboy....Mmm.... och, well...i,ve been called worse......