Gas Street lamp from Italy circa 1930.

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Gas Street lamp from Italy circa 1930. Lead crystal glass doors, beveled edges, copper trim. Beautiful patina, wonderful piece for your collection. Shipping based on location."10 by "17 T was a typo error. The shipping is based on the weight and location,. I can calculate with zip code. Happy Bidding!Gas lighting has not disappeared completely from cities. A gas lamp quietly hisses on a former East Berlin street in 2005. A few cities around the world still use gaslight. The largest gas lighting network in Europe is believed to be that of Nottingham Park Estate in the centre of the English city of Nottingham . Cincinnati, Ohio still uses gaslight in many of its residential neighborhoods. Quite a few streets in central London , the Royal Parks and the exterior of Buckingham Palace remain gaslit. Many smaller streets in Berlin are still illuminated by gas mantle lights as are many neighborhoods in cities that are trying to recall a nostalgic effect, for example, Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts , the entire town of Glen Ridge, New Jersey , and New Orleans, Louisiana .Many gas utility companies will still quote a fixed periodic rate for a customer-maintained gas lamp and homeowners still utilize such devices. However, the high cost of natural gas lighting [1] at least partly explain why a large number of older gas lamps have been read more

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