Featured Frosted Lamp is Cold and Bright

The thread title paraphrases a song lyric from Black Sabbath's first album. Ozzy RIP.

Anyway, this is an Aesthetic Movement Victorian hanging lamp ca. 1880s. The cast brass frame was made by the Meriden Lamp Company in Connecticut. The shade is a rare frosted and etched specimen, and the prisms are unique in that they have brass strips cast inside of the glass. Let's hope one never gets broken, because they would be difficult, if not impossible, to replace. Oh, and the supports are abstracted swans.

Better to light a lamp than curse the darkness.

Cheers!!

 

Lovely! Just a really well balanced shape and beautiful details.

 

Charming !!!!!!

 

Beautiful! I had one that was a B & H but in cranberry! Had the original smoke cap but used a pulley system to pull it up and down. I wish I would have never sold it. What a lovely statement your lamp makes!

 

Beautiful!

Absolutely.

 

Beautiful lamp. That 1st album is a true document - have a copy signed by all four.

 

@Drew Holy cow! Did they sign it with you in person? If so, please tell the story!
“Behind the Wall of Sleep” is my fave Sabbath song. Too bad that Lovecraft element disappeared from their music.

 

Yes, quite a special song. This era had a lot of honesty in music ~ this album is noteworthy for many reasons . . four working class guys put down a marker with everything had, recorded in eight hours ! Got it signed at a 1998 reunion record event... brought my copy of the debut album I'd had for 20 years. I customized the oak frame. RIP Ozzy.

 

That is one gorgeous hanging lamp, Hopps.

Amazing

 

Agree Ghopp- The Cthulhu Mythos added a real sense of cosmic mystery to Sabbath. I wish they would have kept that in their art.

 

Cthulu for President! (LOL) The lamp..whooe. Nice one!