Here's a real pretty amethyst purple glass antique "Fishscale" pattern kerosene oil lamp made in the 1890s....complete with original brass clinch-on collar, Queen Anne No.1 brass burner and original beaded top chimney......This Fishscale lamp is pictured on page 205 of Thuro's lamp book......8 3/4"tall (17"counting burner and chimney).....Excellent shiny nice condition with no chips or damage. A nice clean lamp with no haze. The original brass threaded clinch on collar is shiny perfect. Brass burner has QUEEN ANNE NO.1 emb on top wick shield...Excellent working condition; just needs a new wick. Prongs hold chimney tight. The original early glass chimney has beaded rim. The side of chimney has an acid mark FIRE TEST TRADE MARK....excellent condition with no chips or damage....... ..... THIS IS A FIXED PRICE LAMP FOR SALE IN MY STORE.

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The beautiful amethyst or purple color of this glass is a result of the presence of manganese in the glass, which was a decolorizer to turn the glass clear.  Glass that contains manganese, when exposed to ultraviolet rays of the sun or other sources of UV rays, causes the glass to turn amethyst. Some of my amethyst bottles and glass are purpled from years of exposure to natural sunlight. Others have been purpled with the use of strong UV lights in a box…and some have been purpled by running them through a water sterilization plant,  which is a safe and permanent process which does the same thing as many years of exposure to natural sunlight, except much faster. To those "purists" who falsely believe that glass cannot turn this deep amethyst color naturally, I could take you to places where bottles and glass have turned this same shade of purple from being in the sunlight for many years