2009.08.12 3 Lava Lites

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Comment by LavaMeister on August 13, 2009 at 7:16pm

See my earlier post for all the details but here's the short story. Starting left to right. #1 Contemporary 20 oz. model 2103 with lava and heavily filtered liquid from the badly shaken and as I understand it, quite rare Enchantress on the right. #2 Contemporary 20 oz. model 2127 Pink/Purple. Both were purchased last week. #3 The gold tone Enchantress has the Blue/White from the combination of the liquid/lava from #1 and another 2103 just like it to top it off. I wish I could have saved all the liquid/lava during the filtration process but the paper just soaks it up the liquid in the process. I suppose I could put the original contents back in if I could find another another lamp from the 1987 era with aqua liquid of the same chemical composition. I kept the remaining liquid/lava from the filtration process in containers but there is still not enough liquid remaining to fill the 32 oz. globe to its original capacity. Does anybody know what year the chemical composition changed. My Enchantress was purchased in 1987. If I could find one to cannibalize I could just top off the solution and screw the cap back on. Unfortunately, any true authenticity is forever lost due to the fact that the cap has been removed. I just won a globe manufactured in 1996 on eBay that looks like it might be a match in color. I only paid $1.04 for it!!!Any suggestions on if the liquid would be a chemical match for the 1987 liquid? Does anybody have a gold top screw on globe with the aqua/yellowish combo they would be willing to sell to ease my broken heart? LOL!!

Comment by Jonas Clark-Elliott on August 13, 2009 at 6:33pm

Those two Enchantresses with screw caps, both technically model 8103, would look great displayed together. The green in the green/blue was slowly changed up to the point that calling it white/blue was only a name change. Earlier ones still had VERY green lava, like yours. And both are very uncommon.