Antique 1890-1910 | P & A Mfg. Co. | SCA Irradiated Light Purple | EAPG Peanut Pattern | hotsell Kerosene Lamp/Oil Lamp/Hurricane Lamp and Chimney

This is a very beautiful antique (c.1890-1910) Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Company (P & A Mfg. Co.) 14 1/4", EAPG peanut pattern, SCA irradiated pale purple color kerosene lamp/oil lamp/hurricane lamp with matching SCA pie crust chimney in excellent condition. The oil burner is an Eagle burner (also made by P & A Mfg. Co.). The burner mechanism works well hotsell and includes a new wick. The Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Company was founded in 1869 in Waterbury, Connecticut primarily making lighting and kerosene/oil burners.

What is SCA purple? The glass was originally manufactured as a clear glass, but over time in a process creating sun colored amethyst (SCA) the glass is now light purple. "Much of the “clear” or “off-clear” glass made during the 1880s-1920s contains the element manganese, which was actually added to the glass “batch” as a decolorizing agent. The manganese helped to “mask” or “neutralize” the effects of iron which typically causes some shade of light green, blue-green or aqua color in glass. Manganese, in somewhat higher quantities, also imparts a purple color to glass. When manganese-containing types of glass are subjected to later irradiation, the glass may turn various shades of purple. These shades may appear as an odd “grape-Kool-Aid” purple, a blue-purple (almost leaning toward a cobalt-blue color in some instances) or a very deep royal purple" (glassbottlemarks.com/irradiatedpurpleglass). Age and ultraviolet (UV) light develops a chemical reaction with the manganese and over time can turn the glass purple.

Item size: 14 1/4 inches height (total)
Chimney - 7 1/4 inches height x 3 1/2 inches diameter/width
Base - 7 inches height x 4 1/2 inches diameter/width

Weight: 1.6 pounds total

Item # 558

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