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librarylady

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Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« on: August 20, 2009, 02:22:26 pm »
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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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2009, 02:27:13 pm »
A picture or two?

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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2009, 02:33:32 pm »
Tried...File was too big -- but it was just a digital picture!

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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2009, 02:38:50 pm »
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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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2009, 03:21:38 pm »
LibraryLady, if you email it to me, I'll reduce the file size for you. talesofthesevenseas@hotmail.com
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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2009, 03:48:57 pm »
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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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2009, 04:03:17 pm »
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?







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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2009, 04:13:57 pm »
It's supposed to represent a fluid lamp.

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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2009, 04:21:09 pm »
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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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2009, 06:32:26 pm »
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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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2009, 09:21:47 am »
I would suggest. 1976

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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2009, 10:25:45 am »
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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Re: Any Idea What This Lamp Is?
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2009, 11:49:52 am »
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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