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* Lampe Berger Baccarat cut crystal and gilt metal, model Amphora, vintage twentieth century.
This lamp is in good condition. The system works. It is signed below Baccarat and "Lampe Berger Made in France" on the metal.
A note: micro-scratches and slight wear of time, see pictures.
was developed by Maurice Berger (1866-1930), a pharmaceutical assistant, who filed a patent on June 16, 1898. Its commercialization begins around 1902 in some Parisian pharmacies before Maurice Berger opened his shop in 1910 18 rue Duphot in Paris. Berger lamp consists of a vial in which a mixture of water and isopropanol, fragrant or not, is paid. A wick soaked in that alcohol which rises by capillarity to a catalyst consisting of platinum black and ceramic which, brought to about 500 ° C, will produce aldehydes. These aldehydes released in the atmosphere purify the air by neutralizing odors and perfuming the environment. Appreciated Colette, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso, the Berger lamp, originally utilitarian object and purpose of interior decoration, became collector's item.
