Banquet lamp [Index: Inadequate Information]
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Banquet lamp [Index: Inadequate Information]
by Randall Roche (rroche01@ix.netcom.com)
Posted: Nov. 21, 1998 @ 16:09.
I have a "banquet lamp" cobalt blue with clear spots in the lamp. I
have been told it may be called "lamp with a thousand eyes. Could you
provide information on this
lame?
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On Nov. 23, 1998 @ 22:02, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary (fgraff@comcast.net) wrote:
Randall: I'm afraid I'll need a bit more information before I can
provide anything really useful. "Banquet Lamp"...yes, that's a
particular type...tall stem, biggish font and burner designed to go
in the center of a festive table layout. "Cobalt blue", likely cut to
clear dots...sounds right off like Bohemian/Czech. I'd really need an
image, and even then might not be able to guess as to the age of the
lamp. The "cut to clear" font has been sold in the US since at least
the end of the Civil War, as often as not the highest quality glass
was/is imported from Slovakia or Bohemia.
Your "thousand eyes"
description is a good term, but I've not heard it used to describe
the kind of glass you mention, although it is appropriate a
description. "Thousand Eye" is the common name for an American
Pattern Glass design from around the turn of the century.
An
image, if you can! I don't feel right leaving it at this, but I don't
like to take wild flights of guesswork, in public at least!
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