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ALADDIN LAMP GLASS

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Overview

An elongated circular glass tube, with a lip on the base with three indentations, which hold the chimney in place when mounted on the base. The tube tapers in at the top and has a coat of arms above text.

Historical information

This Aladdin lamp was used by the Beales to assist with lighting at their family home in the early 1900s. It was passed onto their son Bruce in the late 1920s around the time he started an orchard and got married at 245 Peel Road in Roleystone. In 1956 is was taken with the family when they moved to a new orchard on Railway Avenue in Kelmscott. The lamp was passed onto their daughter Janet who kept it in her home until 2019 when she and her husband downsized and moved to Busselton.
Electricity did not come to Roleystone until the mid-1920s and was not extended up through Roleystone until the 1940s.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-33-COA2019.29C

Item type

Lighting

Themes

People
Social History

Material

Glass

Width

75 mm

Height or length

315 mm

Inscriptions and markings

BRITISH MAKE / HEAT RESISTING

Keywords

Aladdin Industries Ltd

Statement of significance

MEDIUM
Decorative domestic oil lighting common in family homes before the arrival of the electricity grid. This complete lamp was purchased by the Beales family to light their home before it was passed onto their son Bruce to use in his family home at 245 Peet Road in Roleystone. When the family moved in 1956 to Kelmscott the lamp was kept as a family heirloom as the new home had electricity. It was later passed onto Bruce's daughter Janet who kept it as a family heirloom before she and her husband downsized and moved to Busselton.

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Interpretive capacity

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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