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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: marycoome on June 16, 2009, 05:57:01 AM
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hello
This is from my grandmothers estate. I think it is Walther Rotterdam? It has a very small chip on the tip of the shade. Would that affect its value much as I need to sell it. I have had it rewired so that it is now safe to use, is that a bad thing?
Mary
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Hi yes you're right this is Walther Rotterdam lamp.Originally the base was part of a comport the urn she holds would hold a pegged bowl.I have the same in green as the complete comport.
I would think it would sell well and depending how big the chip is wouldnt really detract.
Nige
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Thank you
They were not intended as lamps originally? I googled them and every picture I see has the same shade and the gallery on the shade is identical in everyone so the factory must have had a contract with a gallery supplier?
Mary
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Glass manufacturers did not usually add metalwork themselves. Nigel is being a bit of a purist, as the base with comport is how it is shown in the Walther catalogues. But if the hole for the cable in the base is not drilled post pressing, she was also made to be a lamp base, but there was nothing to stop hole being drilled. The glass manufacturers' catalogues never wrote in stone what happened to the products they made. The glass manufacturers sold to wholesalers, who may or may not have tweaked what they bought, and to retailers, who sold as supplied. Business is business.
I don't know if the shade is Walther or not. The wholesaler will have ordered the bases from Walther, the shades from Walther or another supplier, and the gallery from the metal basher. Then either assembled them or had them assembled before selling them on as complete units. These base were also probably sold retail as candlesticks.