Antique oil lamp shades can provide lighting in your house thus making it one of the important things when considering an interior design. These can be placed in different locations inside the house. It can provide light when reading and doing paper work. It can also be an interesting item to collect for it does not only create your mood but at the same time giving your house a contemporary and traditional appearance.
Being an avid collector of lamps, you should be aware that these decorative pieces made during the earlier century where created manually with consistent form making it last longer than products made through a machine. These items made in the earlier times are already limited and in demand thus collecting antique oil lamp shade is a perfect item to start another collection. However, collecting these astounding lighting pieces can be very expensive considering the fact that the supplies are limited and the demand is increasing.
Lamp's chimney or shades are made from different materials. Some of them are made up of quality art glass shades such as the amberina, cranberry, the mother of pearl and the satin glass that are expensive during the 18th century that made it more expensive today for collectors to purchase it. Plain opal shades that are created with milk glass are also available that is considered to be functional for it has two layers of glasses. Most of the time, shades are the focus of the collector in choosing the oil lamp shade they will buy.
When you want to have a magnificent decoration piece inside your house and looking for the next item to collect, then antique oil lamp shades can be the item you have been looking for. You don't only collect items that can be beautiful in your eyes but collecting items that are older than you do.
