Century questions

[Ian]

So, I now have 3 century bottles, all with screw caps, and 2 century bases. I thought the first one I had just had low liquid, but the other 2 have the same amount in them as well. Are they missing any? The liquid level is about 1 inch from the bottom of the cap when cold, and about 1/3 inch from the bottom of the  cap when fully heated. One is a red/yellow, the other two are blue/whites. Also, none of them have a sticker in the cap saying what year and model they are. Or on the base. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The blue/whites both have silver screw caps, one with the silver base as well, and the red/yellow is a gold color.

I uploaded a picture of them hot, its not all that great of a pic but i suppose it will do.

[Ian]

Here is the blue/white that came with the base when it is cold, they all have the exact same liquid level in them when cold.

[Joanne]

wow very nice !! Im sure Jonas knows about these .

[Brad]

nice lamps!  it looks like a very small amount of liquid escaped over the years, but it's nothing to be concerned about at all.  for comparison, here's my 1995 century that i won on ebay recently.  it was new in the box until i opened it.

[Brad]

here's the same lamp when cool

[Joanne]

And i am SUPER jealous Brad LOL

Brad said:

nice lamps!  it looks like a very small amount of liquid escaped over the years, but it's nothing to be concerned about at all.  for comparison, here's my 1995 century that i won on ebay recently.  it was new in the box until i opened it.

[Dr. WHAT?!]

The midnight and silver Centurys were produced in the 90's (lavalite's hay day). Yours look a tad low but nothing too bad. You can top them off with very little distilled water and they'll be fine.

[Ian]

Thanks everyone. I just dont get why the stickers are all missing! It seems unusual, and weird that 3 of them are like that. Im not concerned too much with the liquid level, it really doesnt bother me at all. Just found it odd that all 3 were exactly the same, cause they dont seem like they have ever been opened (i mean why would they have been). However, it seems like the only explanation for the missing stickers would be that they have been opened.

Beautiful century, Im jealous!! Looks gorgeous brand new!

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

That liquid level is on the low side of normal, but it is still normal. Dr. What?! knows his stuff. You needn't top them off, if you did it'd only be less than 1/4" and it wouldn't make much difference. If you're missing more than, oh, 1 1/2" when cold, you're missing liquid.

These are probably all 90s lamps, though I have no idea why they're missing the date labels. "Probably" refers to the brass one, which could be 70s or 90s. Does one of your silver ones have a brass base?

[Dr. WHAT?!]

Honestly I don't think the midnights or silver centurys came with stickers until they switched to bottle caps style bottles. The older models like the gold ones 70-80's etc (like Jonas mentions) did but not anything in the 90's. When i had the 12 midnights not one had a sticker (just the do not remove sticker on top) Even one of my new in box silver century had nothing.

[Ian]

Well that makes sense now. I was basing this off the lava library, and I thought that every single screw cap lamp would have the date sticker. I guess my lamps are 90s then, since they dont have the date sticker. I do know that my brass century is older than the silver century, but its probably only a few years older.

The silver century does have a silver base. I only have 2 century bases, the ones in the picture. (the cold picture is from a different day as the warm picture, but it is the same silver century in both pictures.) I have an extra century globe, which I found by itself at Goodwill awhile ago.