A purely online presence now but with over 40 years experience running a shop and selling to the trade , we guarantee the authenticity of the items we have for sale and try to offer the best of their type , oil lamps have been a major part of my working and private life and I have constantly sought out the unusual . Despite Victoriana being harder to find nowadays I still find things that surprise and delight me , the nineteenth century was a time of great novelty and inventiveness !