Description
A handsome antique brass oil / paraffin lamp with black pottery base and clear glass chimney.
The cranberry glass font and the cranberry glass acid etched shade are beautifully shaped with no chips or cracks. A superb lamp fitted with a twin burner stamped “messenger safety extinguisher”
Still fully functional and in great condition this will light up any room.
The extinguisher raising leaver enables lighting of the wicks without removing the glass chimney.
Samuel S Messenger & Sons. Founded before 1835 in Gloucester Place, Alston Street, Birmingham, moved to 19&20 Broad Street before 1888, making chandeliers, candelabra, lamps and gas fittings, exhibitor at 1851 Great Exhibition and others. The name occurs in the 1810s as Messenger and Phipson of Broad Street, Birmingham, manufacturers of ‘plated’ goods. Ceased trading in the early 1930s.
Dimensions
Height = 64 cm (25.2″)
Width = 19 cm (7.5″)
Depth = 19 cm (7.5″)
All measurements are done to the widest point .
Please feel free to contact me with any enquiry or for more pictures .
Delivery :
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Here at Sinclair’s Antiques and Interiors we do our utmost best to ensure all our items are described and photographed to show any flaws or damage such as shrinkage splits, losses or lifts to veneer, repairs or marks. However giving the age and the fact that each piece will have had years of polishing to create its own individual character we cannot describe every minor mark separately and therefore recommend you either visit our warehouse or request extra photographs.
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