{"id":312,"date":"2010-03-14T14:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T19:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:27:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:27:24","slug":"american-whale-oil-lamp-c-1830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"American whale oil lamp, c.1830"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A free blown clear glass whale oil lamp, made in America in the early 1800&#8217;s, measures 7-1\/2&#8243; high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20562.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-315\" title=\"IMG_2056\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20562-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20562-204x300.jpg 204w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20562.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As lamps were used daily, it is not unusual to see examples with replacement bases, such as this simple one made of\u00a0wood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20571.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-319\" title=\"IMG_2057\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20571-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20571-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_20571.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This similar oil lamp still has its original elaborately molded base.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil5075-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-317\" title=\"oil5075-1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil5075-1-122x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil5075-1-122x300.jpg 122w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oil5075-1.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comollo.com\">Comollo Antiques<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free blown clear glass whale oil lamp, made in America in the early 1800&#8217;s, measures 7-1\/2&#8243; high. As lamps were used daily, it is not unusual to see examples with replacement bases, such as this simple one made of\u00a0wood. This similar oil lamp still has its original elaborately molded base. Photo courtesy of Comollo [&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":[62,32,12],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamp","tag-american","tag-glass","tag-wood-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4465,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/4465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}