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   From: DouglasSteckel@rcn.com   
      
   Help please!!!   
      
   I picked this up thinking it was an unusual gas lamp but someone suggested   
   it may be a bar room lighter of some kind. It is about 9 inches ling without   
   the globe. The globe is very delicate closed glass globe with about 6 holes   
   around the top. Someone suggested is was meant to be hung in a bar or parlor   
   and the holes were for lighting cigarettes. A chain leads to some linkage   
   which opens the gas valve. It also appears there may be an always on pilot   
   light (The smaller porcelain piece near the bigger one. The inner metal ring   
   extends and retracts as one pinches the loops of a spring ring that come   
   through the housing at the surface. This implies something else was held   
   there. On one of the linkages is "Welsbach & Co." It has a chain that is   
   meant to be pulled from below to light it. There appears to be maybe a pilot   
   lamp always on and the chain when pulled would light the mantle.   
      
   Does anyone have a clue what exactly this is?   
      
   http://users.rcn.com/douglassteckel/DSC02882.JPG   
   http://users.rcn.com/douglassteckel/DSC02884.JPG   
      
   Thanks!   
      
   Doug   
      
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