Wonderful quality antique Victorian brass oil lamp by Hinks and Sons

Unusual quality antique Victorian oil lamp having a quality antique Victorian oil lamp with a bulbous glass chimney, a single burner, a reeded column with wonderful scroll decoration...

Wonderful quality antique Victorian oil lamp, having the original opaque glass shade with a frilled rim, a glass chimney, above a brass burner and clear glass font, supported by a wo...

Quality antique Victorian ceramic and brass lamp, having a fantastic ceramic base decorated with sea creatures, birds, scrolls and leaves on a white ground hand painted in blue, yell...

Quality antique Victorian brass oil lamp, having a quality antique Victorian brass oil lamp with an etched glass globe and a glass chimney above a double brass burner and clear glass...

Fantastic quality antique Victorian silver plated urn shaped oil lamp by Hinks and Sons, with a glass chimney and etched glass globe, having a silver plated urn shaped base with spir...

Quality antique Victorian brass oil lamp having the original floral decorated glass shade, brass reservoir supported on a brass Corint...

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

Quality antique Victorian oil lamp having the original etched glass shade and glass chimney, double brass burners, hand painted glass font and rais...

Antique Victorian reeded column quality brass oil lamp having the original glass shade and chimney, double burner, brass font supported by a reeded column standing on an ornate bras...

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...

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...

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 square ste...