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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: penelopepitstop on May 14, 2014, 06:50:12 PM
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Hi, can anyone tell me anything about this? Is it an antique lampshade? Thanks in advance.
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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?
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I was thinking that perhaps it stood upright. I will take some better photos in daytime. Thanks
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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You have it upside down, the silver end (or if the silver is worn away, the base metal end) is the bottom.
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Is it for candles or do you think it would be for a gas lamp?
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Dimensions would help
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Its either for a candle or electric lamp. A gas lamp hurricane shade is domed & completely different in shape...at least in the U.S.
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They are on, 10 inches tall, further up I think it was 6 inches diameter at the bottom.