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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 17822, member: 44&quot;]&gt; I was not aware of these new fangled collars. Perhaps that is why it cracked like that. &lt;</p><p><br /></p><p>Hi Mickey &amp; Greg! Between you, me, and the fence post, I really don&#039;t know how these &quot;shrunk-on&quot; collars work. It seems they were pressed on, but I would think it still needed something to press into?? The interior of the Ebling collar of the one I have has a little white plaster showing. I believe this plaster was applied to make the interior look better. As to whether this style is more prone to crack than others, I doubt it. I have seem many oil lamps with cracked collars through the years. I well say, this is the first cracked Ebling collar I have seen; however, I have only seen a few Ebling collars. Here is a lamp website with pics and a little info about oil lamp collars. The Ebling collar is the 6th picture down. Oil lamps with Ebling collars and the Riverside clinch collars (5th collar down) are always a drawing for lamp collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_collars.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_collars.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_collars.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&gt;...there isn&#039;t anything thing that she does not know or where to go for the answer.&lt;</p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate the compliment, but as the old &quot;saw&quot; goes, I may &quot;know a little about a lot, but not a lot about anything.&quot; The trick is knowing &quot;where to go for the answer.&quot; My parents very very rarely spelled a word for us or gave us an answer to a question that could be found in a dictionary, encyclopedia or any of the myriad of books in our library. They might tell us what book an answer could be found in, but that was it. Most time the conversation at the dinner table would be discussing what we had learned/studied that day. Even when Mother was in her late 80s, she didn&#039;t help me spell a word I has trying to include in an email that the spell-checker didn&#039;t recognize. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/mad.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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