It Looked Useless… Until I Turned It Over!!!
What Makes Blown Glass Oil Lamps So Cool
Fine, so let’s geek out for a minute. Hand blown glass oil lamps were all the rage before electricity came around, and frankly never went out of style. Many were crafted with an eye for beauty — curved glass, swirls of color, sometimes elaborate patterns melted into the glass itself. And being handmade and all, they were all a bit different.
Some of them were even created as “whimsies” — that is, glassblowers taking it easy at the end of a long day, creating whatever struck their fancy from a pile of leftover pieces of glass. Which kind of makes each cool lamp even cooler, right? It’s like having a snapshot of someone’s creativity in your hand. That’s the appeal of blown glass oil lamps.
However, and there’s a a possibility that this is just me, I like the idea of things that serve a purpose and look good doing it.
The Missing Wick Mystery
Mine was missing both the wick and the insert, which I later discovered is fairly typical. Those small pieces disappear with time. To be totally honest, if I hadn’t already known what it was, I’d likely have thrown it into a drawer and just assumed that it was some kind of weird vase for a single spaghetti noodle.
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