Author Topic: Old Cut glass Lamp base (Read 2024 times)

Tigerchips · « **on:** January 29, 2006, 01:06:35 AM »

I picked this one up from a demolished building site. An old night club to be precise. That sounds rather suspicious but it's true.

It has the numbers 4847 impressed on the base of the metal. 10.5 inches high.

I've had it for a while and I'm not sure if I like it or not. I'm just curious to know where it came from and how old it is. Any ideas?

Frank · « **Reply #1 on:** January 29, 2006, 10:19:04 AM »

Oil lamp base c 1920/30's I'd guess. Are the 7's crossed or plain?

Pinkspoons · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2006, 10:30:57 AM »

Gosh - that's an incredibly nice lamp!

If you ever decide you don't like it... *nudge nudge, wink wink*

:lol:

Tigerchips · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2006, 02:49:59 PM »

I actually felt quite embarassed to own an incomplete lamp so I resisted putting it on the GMB.

I looked on Ebay yesterday and found a whole whack of them with parts missing at decent prices. The glass on my lamp base seems fairly boring though in comparison.

The 7 is not crossed.

Pinkspoons · « **Reply #4 on:** January 29, 2006, 03:20:02 PM »

I think it's the relative simplicity of the design that makes it quite appealing, though.

Frank · « **Reply #5 on:** January 29, 2006, 04:06:08 PM »

It is the bases and shades that make the money, burners are dime a dozen and chimneys are still being made.

Victorian bases fetch the best money. Good shades are like gold dust, I used to be able to sell the better ones for upto 2 or 300 pounds in the 1980's. Victorian Bases would sell between 50 and 150. Never found a complete one. There was not much of a market for 20th century ones back then.

Tigerchips · « **Reply #6 on:** January 29, 2006, 05:56:57 PM »

So what do crossed 7's mean, please? :?

Della · « **Reply #7 on:** January 29, 2006, 06:02:43 PM »

European.
Or at least that is what I would assume if I saw a crossed 7 on a piece. :lol:

Tigerchips · « **Reply #8 on:** January 29, 2006, 07:13:09 PM »

I'll remember that, thanks.