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SCARCE Antique Mini Oil Lamp, Green "New Beauty", GLOWS
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"SCARCE" Lime Green Vaseline Glass Beaded "New Beauty" Night Lamp, S1-367 Lime Green "New Beauty" Night Lamp, S1-367 About 8 3/4" tall to top of shade About 4 3/4" in diameter at widest point Advertised in "House Furnisher" in December, 1900 Background & History: This lamp is pictured in End-of-Day glass in Frank & Ruth Smith's book "Miniature Lamps" in Figure 367. The Smith's do not make any comment about the lamp coming in other colors, but McDonald ("Evolution of the Night Lamp") and Hulsebus ("Price Guide for Miniature Lamps") do. McDonald notes on page 62 of her book that the lamp was called the "New Beauty Night Lamp" and was manufactured in "End-of-Day glass, ruby, amberina, purple and green." (Hulsebus only notes that it came in colored glass and in End-of-Day glass). McDonald was unable to obtain an example of the lamp to photograph, but notes that it is similar in appearance to the "New Art Night Lamp" which is shown in Figure 369 of the Smith book. The most obvious difference between the two lamps is that the beads on this "New Beauty" are aligned in vertical rows while the beads on the "New Art" are aligned in swirled, or twisted, rows. Both lamps were offered in this country by William Noe--a lamp manufacturer and importer with offices in New York City and Hamburg, Germany. Noe also had a factory in Brooklyn, New York. McDonald notes that the glass for many of Noe's lamps (including this one, she believes) was made in Europe. Since all of Noe's lamps have American hardware (burners & collars) its likely that the imported glass parts were assembled into finished lamps in Noe's Brooklyn factory. It seems that Noe started in the lamp business in 1895 offering a very inexpensive ($0.05 each) primitive clear glass lamp with a tin burner/reflector (The Handy Night Lamp, S1-5, Right) and over time expanded his line to include a wide variety of lamps including a number of more elegant (and consequently more expensive) models. He continued in the lamp business until his death in 1920. Based on an old advertisement (in a publication called "House Furnisher"), McDonald dates this lamp at about 1900. When we first saw this lamp we wondered about the fact that the shade was quite a bit darker than the base. It occurred to us that the lamp might have been a marriage. But several factors have convinced us that this was not the case and that the lamp is original as is. First, the shade is very dark in color at its top and lightens in color as it continues down to the fitter end. This gives the impression that the dark shade lightening in color to the bottom of the base was intentional. The second factor is that this lamp, in this color, is considered to be (and actually is) quite scarce. We think it would be hard for a collector to find both a green base and a green shade to marry together. But most convincing to us was the second example of this lamp which we acquired at the same time. This second example (which we will recently sold on eBay ) was made of amethyst glass. And, it too, has a darker shade which lightens towards the bottom and is paired with a lighter base. Finding two examples of this lamp with the same shading characteristics in two distinct colors leads us to believe that both of these lamps are original, and matched as manufactured. And, note the last photo, which was taken under ultra-violet ("black") light. Under black light, this lamp glows quite strongly. This fluorescence indicates that the lime green color of this lamp was achieved by the addition of uranium oxide to the molten glass mixture. Uranium salts, which are a vivid yellow color has been used as a glass coloring agent at least since the 1830s (and perhaps as far back as Roman times--but the evidence for that is not concl... 
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