Vintage Westmoreland? Green Pressed Depression Glass Converted Whale Oil Lamp

Vintage Westmoreland? Bright Green Pressed Depression Glass Converted Whale Oil Lamp This is a beautiful example of a 1920s reproduction of an 1820s design. This is a reproduction made long enough ago, and well enough, too, that today's collectors may easily mistake it for an original early glass lamp. Made with a hexagonal base with a ribbed body and rounded top. The Westmoreland Glass company, among others, is known to have produced reproductions of whale oil lamps in the 1920's, as collector interest in Colonial Americana spiked. Glass companies made examples of reproduction whale oil lamps in both colorless and colored glass, with etched design or left undecorated, and many such items could be purchased complete with an attractive shade. It clipped onto the bulb in the electric socket in the antique-look metal collar. On this piece the impression can be seen where a part of the electric socket once rested on the cork inside the collar. Lamps that burned whale oil typically were used in the average household from the late 1820's until the early 1860's, by which time kerosene had supplanted whale oil as a primary source for lighting. Pressed glass lamps were made from about 1830, with vase-type shapes similar to the lamp shown in this listing popular between about 1835 and 1845. This is in good vintage condition. There a few very small fleabites but they are barely noticeable. Measures about 11" from the base to the top.