Victorian Brass Oil Lamp, Hinks & Sons

Wonderful quality antique Victorian brass oil lamp by Hinks and Sons, having a quality antique Victorian brass oil lamp, with a glass chimney and globe supported on a brass fluted sh...

Victorian telescopic brass standard lamp modelled as an embellished classical column with foliate moulding and further foliate embellishments, resting on eagle claw feet - 22" diam x...

Antique 19th Century Hand Painted Porcelain Table Lamp by A J Hinks and Sons Birmingham. This exquisite table lamp fea...

Antique Victorian reeded column brass oil lamp having a pretty tulip shaped white and pink etched glass shade with a single burner stood on a squar...

A 19th century Victorian brass oil lamp having a pretty tulip shaped white and green elegantly etched glass shade with a single burner stood ...

A very fine pair of mid-Victorian parcel gilt bronze oil lamps, by Hinks, each modelled as a bearded warrior dressed in the style of a Saxon king with a crowned helmet, broadsword and double-headed battle axe, standing in front of a slender scroll support surmounted by a cut glass oil reservoir, all set on a shaped ormolu base encircled with a victor’s wreath of oak leaves, and raised on an octagonal bronze base, converted to electricity, stamped ‘Hinks & Sons Patent’ on the fitting. English, circa 1860. Footnote: James Hinks (1816-1905). Leaving home at 16 he tried many trades from wood turning, japanning, brush making, die sinking, medal making and even being a pub landlord, before manufacturing oil lamps. Working from the Crystal Lamp Works, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, he was joined by his son Joseph and renamed the company ‘James Hinks and Son in 1862’. They won a patent for ‘improvements in lamps’ the following year and swiftly launched the ‘Patent Duplex Lamp...