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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Born2it, post: 10502857, member: 59977&quot;]Welcome aboard! People with other knowledge will be along shortly, but I can tell you that the Patent date most often isn’t the date something was made. It’s literally the date the Patent Office assigned them a patent for the design used, thus giving them (temporarily) the sole right to use it.&nbsp; That said, it does tell you it wasn’t made before that date, thus narrowing the time frame.</p><p><br /></p><p>The patent was almost certainly for the functional parts of the lamp (the parts that involve flame, adjustment, and fuel delivery) as the glass parts were common enough at the time that they couldn’t have gotten a patent for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that, all I can say is that it’s really cool.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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