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Title: Tall lobed lamp base (or something else?), anyone?
Post by: SNJ on August 24, 2014, 07:44:48 PM
Could anyone please suggest, well anything, to throw some light on this 11" piece? The default for anything chunky like this is Murano but that's such a generic term and besides, perhaps looks a bit plain. In fact, having looked at it again, the chrome bit on top has no hole and nor is there a drill hole for flex exiting anywhere so is it even a lamp or a base for something else? The glass, incidentally, is clear with an icy blue tinge, no casing.

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220210.jpg (http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220210.jpg)

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220212.jpg (http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220212.jpg)

http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220214.jpg (http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u495/thelasticonoclast/P8220214.jpg)
Title: Re: Tall lobed lamp base (or something else?), anyone?
Post by: Pinkspoons on August 24, 2014, 07:53:46 PM
Its bulbholder would have had its own hole for wiring, or would have been attached with a spacer tube with a side-entry hole.

I wouldn't be too shocked if there were a Val St. Lambert signature/mark somewhere to the base.
Title: Re: Tall lobed lamp base (or something else?), anyone?
Post by: SNJ on August 24, 2014, 08:09:10 PM
Ah yes, that makes perfect sense and, having Googled some examples, I would say that that attribution looks very reasonable, so many thanks for that!

No sign of a mark anywhere, unfortunately, so presumably the original label would have been removed.

Title: Re: Tall lobed lamp base (or something else?), anyone?
Post by: Ivo on August 24, 2014, 08:50:37 PM
VSL is the most likely, but Vannes and Sèvres dit similars which are almost identical & often unsigned.
Title: Re: Tall lobed lamp base (or something else?), anyone?
Post by: SNJ on August 25, 2014, 09:01:19 AM
But it was probably worth splashing out a whole £1 then?!
Title: Re: Tall lobed lamp base (or something else?), anyone?
Post by: Ivo on August 25, 2014, 09:18:04 AM
hey big spender you!