| Antique porcelain lamps can be oil lamps or electric | | | | door. |
| lamps, simply depending on when they were made | | | | The antique torchiere lamp, the antique brass floor |
| and for what market. Some of these antique lamps | | | | lamp, and the antique art deco lamp are some of the |
| are oil burning lamps. The most commonly recognized | | | | more modern antique lamps that are still very popular |
| antique oil lamps are built with a large globe on the | | | | today. Torchiere lamps are very useful and easy to |
| bottom and a smaller globe on top. Most of these | | | | place, because they provide indirect bright light to a |
| are very decorative, with both globes painted, usually | | | | room or area without the trouble of installing |
| with floral designs. | | | | overhead fixtures. Most antique lamps are quite |
| Electric antique porcelain lamps are typically of a table | | | | ornate and beautiful, since they were considered to |
| lamp style, but are still well known for having painted | | | | be a design feature, not just an appliance. |
| designs and patterns on one or both globes. There is | | | | Antique brass floor lamps are very popular, partly |
| a wide and varied assortment of antique lamps that | | | | because they are well made and sturdy, and partly |
| can be purchased from 'Net sites, antique stores, or | | | | because they are plentiful on the market. Brass floor |
| even (sometimes) at yard or garage sales. These | | | | lamps typically require little in the way of renovation; |
| lamps may be oil or electric, plain or fancy, but are | | | | a bit of polishing, modern wiring, and perhaps a shade |
| almost always high quality, as well as a lovely addition | | | | are all that is needed. |
| to a room or house. | | | | The beautiful designs of Art Deco lamps make them |
| One of the most enduringly popular of all of the | | | | very valuable, not only as antiques, but also for the |
| types of antique lamps is the banker's lamp. A | | | | intrinsic design value of that period. Art Deco lamps |
| bankers lamp is normally constructed of a brass post | | | | might be made from brass, copper, mica, stained |
| with a green or blue glass shade. Today, the green | | | | glass, or other aesthetically pleasing (and somewhat |
| shades are most common in reproduction lamps, but | | | | atypical) materials. |
| the blue shades were as common in the original type. | | | | Antique kerosene lamps are well liked, not only for |
| Antique porch lamps, which are very popular with | | | | their value as antiques, but also for their beauty and |
| designers today, were originally used not on porches, | | | | functionality. The most popular type of antique oil |
| but in carriages. Carriage lamps were mostly made of | | | | lamp (from the late 1800's) is the student lamp. |
| brass, wrought iron, or wood, and were mounted on | | | | These student lamps were available as both single |
| the carriage doors or side walls. The sturdy | | | | and double burner models. They were widely used |
| construction and design of the carriage lamps makes | | | | because they threw very little shadow which made |
| them well suited to their modern use as porch lights. | | | | them ideal for their intended purpose as a reading |
| They are usually seen mounted on either side of a | | | | and study lamp. |