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Banquet lamp [Index: Inadequate Information]
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Banquet lamp [Index: Inadequate Information] by Randall
Roche
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
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!
:: Fil ::