Help Identifying Primitive Oil Lamp???

[ayden2008]

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!?

[mart]

Appears to be a chalkware reproduction of a whale oil lamp !!

[KC]

Definitely an oil lamp.

However, there are so many out there....  Looks to be a "modern" item with the imprint.

[mart]

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 !!

[ayden2008]

No its not glazed mart. And so maybe its a repop that they did with the hallmark to pass it off as real? 

[mart]

Or,, not a lamp and something else entirely !!

[frogpatch]

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.

[mariok54]

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!

[mart]

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 ??

[greenacres]

Now that's a name from the past. How are you mario?

[mart]

Hope he comes back and catches us up !!

[greenacres]

Yes, it's been years. Wonder where his been?

[mart]

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 !!

[mariok54]

Are you thinking of the Colosseum, Mart?
Looking at that stamp, I am thinking more down the lines of the Parthenon, on the Acropolis.

[mart]

Not Colosseum,,its bigger Parthenon I think but its been a while since world history class !!  Will have to go look !!