{"id":1213,"date":"2010-04-06T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T21:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2011-02-19T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T19:18:56","slug":"sawtooth-diamond-oil-lamp-c-1850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sawtooth Diamond&#8221; oil lamp, c. 1850"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This pressed glass whale oil lamp in the &#8220;Sawtooth Diamond&#8221; pattern measures 9-3\/4&#8243; high. It has a brass collar and was made of flint glass, most likely in New England in the mid 1800&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20502.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4324\" title=\"IMG_2050\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20502.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20502.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20502-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mass produced molded pressed glass was made to look like more expensive, hand made cut glass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5342\" title=\"IMG_7125\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7125.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7125-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most likely, an itinerant tinsmith or tinker in the late 1800&#8217;s fashioned a round base to repair the broken lamp and make it usable again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5343\" title=\"IMG_7126\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7126.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7126-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The oil lamp pictured below in the &#8220;Excelsior Variant&#8221; pattern shows what the original base on my lamp might have looked like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/E5624ExcelsiorVariantWhaleOilLamp4971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4330\" title=\"E5624ExcelsiorVariantWhaleOilLamp497\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/E5624ExcelsiorVariantWhaleOilLamp4971.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breyantiques.com\">Brey Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pressed glass whale oil lamp in the &#8220;Sawtooth Diamond&#8221; pattern measures 9-3\/4&#8243; high. It has a brass collar and was made of flint glass, most likely in New England in the mid 1800&#8217;s. Mass produced molded pressed glass was made to look like more expensive, hand made cut glass. Most likely, an itinerant tinsmith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[62,32,44],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamp","tag-american","tag-glass","tag-metal-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}