A completely beautiful beautiful DEEP PURPLE AMETHYST color original antique glass oil lamp.  Lamp is about 9" tall, to top of collar, w/out chimney, and roughly about 17" tall with chimney, to the top of the glass chimney.  This is an ORIGINAL (over One Century Old) ANTIQUE Oil Lamp, a hand Blown Into Mold lamp (BIM), dating well over 100 years old. 

• Condition:   Glass lamp is in SPARKLING CLEAN condition.  It has a few horizontal flashes (thin short in-making cracks/fizzures created by the annealing process) in the top part of the bowl and a few nicks on the lower part of base.  Actually, for a used appliance that was solely used to provide light, over a CENTURY ago, it is in amazing condition considering.  
  

• Age: An early hand-blown lamp (Blown-In-Mold = BIM), ca. late-1800's.

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An outstanding looking antique oil lamp in a not too commonly seen pattern.  Back then they made things to stand up to all of the stresses and wear that they would be subject to, and this pride of craftsmanship really comes through in this lamp.  Though it is very durable and made for use, it also has an exquisitely ornate touch to it, which gives it a nice decorative look.   A completely beautiful Victorian antique.   Unlike so many of these old lamps that are burned out and NOT safe to use, the brass collar and burner on this lamp have been replaced and though most of these ORIGINAL OLD antique lamps are just used as decoration for display, this one is functional as well.   At times of power outages or ... even romantic evenings with a glass of wine, it can be used to give out that wonderful soft 'antiquee' looking  glow.  Then there's the beautiful deep purple amethyst color. We've all heard about old glass turning purple in the sunlight ... this beautiful purple amethyst color is the result of  this bottle being made with manganese-glass.  This purple color is the result of having manganese in the glass.  Manganese is a mineral, a rock, that was mined, crushed, and pulverized into a powder, then added to vats of molten liquid glass, and acted as a decolorizing agent to turn the natural aqua-tinted glass into a pure crystal clear colorless glass.   But when exposed to the ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, it triggers a chemical reaction and the manganese oxidizes and turns a wonderful amethyst color.  Though some may suggest that this lavender color has been artificially produced or altered if it was purpled by any other source than natural sunlight, the only thing that may be altered is the time it took to turn purple.   We had a friend of ours accelerate the sun color purple process by running this bottle through an industrial food sterilizer which has the same affect as the sun, but a lot faster.   And it really doesn't matter whether a bottle has turned purple by the sun or UV rays in a controlled environment, they all turn the same purple color as it is all the same chemical reaction taking place.  But what IS important is the age of the bottle as, with few exceptions, only clear glass from before 1914 has manganese in it and will turn sun-colored-amethyst.   So a bottle has to be old enough, blown with manganese in the glass, in order to turn purple.  Not only does this deep purple/amethyst color make this a great looking antique lamp, but it also authenticates it as being truly antique.  You rarely see these in this deep sun colored purple AND in up and running condition like this one.  It is ... good to glow .... check it out!