Topic: Help please can you identify? Is it antique? Lampshade

[penelopepitstop]

Hi, can anyone tell me anything about this?  Is it an antique lampshade?  Thanks in advance.

[flying free]

It's hard to tell with your photograph.  It isn't clear enough.  It needs to be well lit showing the detail and colour, against a plain white background please.
It looks to me as though the metal bit slots into a holder on  table or wall and the shade stands upright from there - but is there a hole in the metal bit for wiring to go through?  or is there an indentation where a candle might have stood perhaps?
M

[penelopepitstop]

I was thinking that perhaps it stood upright.  I will take some better photos in daytime.  Thanks

[flying free]

No problem
Better photos will help with the colours and seeing the type of glass it is.
Btw we might also need size and weight of the piece and a little more description to try and work out what it might be please.
Thanks
m

[Ohio]

In the U.S. your shade is called a Hurricane shade. The silver base simply fit (in the upright position over the small socket on what was known as a candlestick lamp. There was a waxed heavy cardboard candlestick sleve that fit over the socket & the shade then simply slipped over the cardboard sleve & long bulb so the silver base fit onto a ring. Attached is a pic of a pair of Pairpoint lamps that shows the candlestick fixture. These types of lamps & hurricane shades date from roughly 1910 to the mid to late 1930s in the U.S. In Europe I have no idea. 

[SantaR]

I wonder if it is for a gas-lamp.  I've seen people still using gas lighting in rural areas in the US and of course most people did in the UK up until a certain date.

[penelopepitstop]

Hi, have attached another pic.  I have two of them, they are quite heavy, thick glass.  Approx 10 inches high, the base is 6 inches in diameter.  I wanted to use them in my hall for lampshades but they are far too heavy...

[Ohio]

You have it upside down, the silver end (or if the silver is worn away, the base metal end) is the bottom.

[penelopepitstop]

Is it for candles or do you think it would be for a gas lamp?

[Lustrousstone]

Dimensions would help