Topic: Pressed Glass Green Fish

[heartofsklo]

Light green in colour, the base is triangular with rounded corners. There is an egg shaped apperture approx 1.5 inches behind the fish for a tealight? Candle? or another small object. It measures 9cm tall x 9cm wide and has no makers marks.

[Bernard C]

I'm sure it's a lamp, missing its bakelite or chrome base incorporating a lampholder.   The colour puts me in mind of a green rocket that fitted into the top of a '50s chrome lamp by Leek of Birmingham — the same fitting as the bayonet version of the Bagley Andromeda figurine.

Bernard C. 

[heartofsklo]

I'm sure it's a lamp, missing its bakelite or chrome base incorporating a lampholder.   The colour puts me in mind of a green rocket that fitted into the top of a '50s chrome lamp by Leek of Birmingham — the same fitting as the bayonet version of the Bagley Andromeda figurine.

Bernard C. 

Thanks Bernard, try as I may, I cannot put the puzzle into action in my mind regarding this piece.Are there any images of the kind of lamp/fitting that you describe? I have searched for "Bagley Andromeda figurine" but no lamps.

[Bernard C]

See http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,26348.msg146680.html#msg146680

No pictures I'm afraid.   I've only seen two or three, my own which I sold with both Andromeda and the Rocket so that my client could change them around, and one or two others.   I doubt whether many have survived.

There are plenty of examples of close-fitting lamp bases around — for example Hajdamach II shows one by Walsh.

Bernard C.