This spectacular Trophy and Greek Revival Style Victorian Banquet Lamp is very showy! displaying beautifully, looking like a prized trophy. You will not get tired of looking at it!, It has been restored to it's 1895-1900 original appearance with the glow of a original artist's intent restoration. This lamp is well suited for the best Victorian home restoration, or for a contemporary home where unique artistry is valued and appreciated. This lamp has been displayed in my home for many years with a large number of compliments from visitors marveling at the striking design, the visual impact, and the high quality. If you own a Victorian home, your home is this lamp's natural habitat. This lamp is about 125 years old, and is a beautiful example of Plume and Atwood's design mastery and excellence. I have displayed this lamp for many years and its great beauty, with the shade so complimentary with the brass base makes it such that I always love just looking at its magnificent look. I cannot make it look and glow any better than it looks now! If you buy it, you will love it!

Physical specifications: This lamp is 32 inches tall, and features a polished antique brass finish with clear gold lacquer. This restoration was done many years ago, the brass under the lacquer has slightly darkened to look like light brass bronze, and has the patina of an untouched lamp. The  stem is also highly polished and features 2 large Greek Revival plaques finished in antique brass/bronze which are applied to the base . The lamp has a 4 inch shade holder, a 12 inch chimney, a Aladdin style bug screen to keep out bugs and dust. The lamp is sold as is, and as described.

About the Lamp: "From Center-Draft Kerosene Lamps 1884-1940"*; Page 308.  "This central-draft Royal lamp was one of P and A's most popular lamps made for all Victorian homes, It will look spectacular in homes decorated in the Greek Revival style, as well as any other home its displayed in. The Greek Key design on the base is also spectacular. If I owned a 19th century home this is a banquet lamp I would want for use in my home. Most Royal lamps were unmarked except for the flame spreader and a patent date on the wick raising mechanism.  This lamp is marked "Pat.4309 and is thought to be from 1893,on the left side of the wick riser. P and A and Royal were issued many patents, an this patent number is not shown in the above book, but it does unequivocally identifies it as a Plume and Atwood Lamp from at least 1895.  It also has a burner that looks identical to a picture on page 308 in the above book.

Electrified: his lamp was modernized to electricity easily because it is a central draft lamp, without any noticeable damage to it. The oil pot is in good condition and can be easily converted back to an authentic Victorian Banquet lamp with the addition of (not included) a wick and flame spreader. The pictures show the lamp with the light on and off. It has a 60W LED dimmable, GE light bulb, soft white and has a dimmer switch to dim the bulb to 30 watts. Set to the dimmer setting it has the appearance of the way the lamp looked when it was burning kerosene, without the fire risk and the smell of burning kerosene. Set to high, it is medium bright with a very classy look.

The shade:  A Vintage,floral design with the elegant look of a permanent bouquet of flowers!!  It is about 10 inches in diameter, and while this shade did not come with this lamp originally, it is a vintage shade made about the same year as the base. It looks spectacular;  like it was made for this lamp, and has a synergistic beauty with the lamp's brass. It just looks like it belongs on the lamp!!

Remember, if you live in a Victorian home, original lighting that actually looks like it looked 125 years ago, is among some of the finer details that make a Victorian home restoration authentic. Most Victorian homes in the period had many examples of these types of lamps in use in throughout the home, in living rooms, bedrooms, library, dining rooms and more. This lamp is ready to display and use in your home, without the risk of flammable oils, or the headache of buying an incomplete lamp and doing it yourself. Pick up a copy of the current Victorian Homes Magazine. It is spectacular with 100 pages of Victorian home interior restorations. There are some oil lamps pictured and some Victorian chandeliers re-purposed elegantly, and a couple far away shots of banquet lamps and an occasional newel post lamp. Historically, banquet lamps have been a missing element in these articles, but when they are there -WOW, they look great!!