In 1949, the company moved to Nashville, Tennessee and changed the business name to Aladdin Industries, Inc. The Mantle Lamp Company of America was located in Chicago, IL from 1908 to 1949. The tall chimney increases the draft and provides more air so the burner can sustain the higher temperature to heat the mantel to incandescence. You can often spot an Aladdin because the chimney is slimmer and taller than chimneys on most other lamps. This blue flame burns at a higher temperature than wicks, heating the mantle to incandescence which produces the white light.
Careful observation will reveal a small blue flame below the mantle, not the yellow flame of wick lamps. The mantle, made of a special mixture of rare earth oxides, produces light by a process called incandescence. The incandescent Aladdin mantle is far more efficient than a wick lamp.
The Aladdin lamp is the last non-pressure, kerosene, incandescent mantle lamp made in the world today. All are collectible and useable today.Īladdin is perhaps best known as a brand of "coal oil" lamp. The company created special glass colors, made unique paper and glass shades, and beginning in the 1930s, started making Art Deco versions of electric lamps. The purpose of this report is to bring attention to the latest round of reproductions that can fool the unaware, especially in a dark auction ring.Īladdin lamps were made as table lamps, hanging lamps, floor lamps, wall lamps, and as caboose lamps. Reproductions and re-issues have been coming to market since about 1970. Reproductions of Aladdin Shades and LampsĪladdin lamps are increasingly popular among collectors who seek the colorful and rare lamps and shades made since 1908.
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