Bronze lamp ID

Picked this up from one of the finest estates I’ve ever seen. Contents were auctioned off by high end local auctioneer. On pickup Auctioneer invited me to search the stuff that didn’t make it across the block. This lamp was in the pile. It’s badly hurt but I couldn’t leave it. It looks to me to be from the era of lamps that’s well worth looking into. I know very little about them but enough to grab it just in case. Unfortunately I see no marks on it anywhere. The base where it meets the body in particular is badly damaged but I assume it could be salvaged by the right person. Can anyone help to ID it?

 

Look really close at the ball on the pull chain for a patent date. Use a loupe if you have one.

Looks like early teens to me. Still has some Nouveau influences on the base.

You need a fitter ring for the light socket, then you can look for a nice little glass shade for it.

 

Ooh ok I will! I didn’t know there would be a date there! I already put it in the dungeon (basement) but I’ll drag it back out tomorrow. I noticed in one of my photos that there is writing on the plug itself, the metal prong that enters the socket I mean. Just the last few letters are visible in the photo. I doubt it’s helpful but worth looking at that too. Looks to end in Dell, too bad Handel is one L!

Now that I think of it I have a nice repro glass shade that may fit it well actually. I’ll probably end up selling it as is though.

 

Has a louvered shell socket (no set screw to join the half's) and a UNO fitter, so it's later then 1914-15. Likely 1920-25ish with the ball pull chain end. Nine times out of ten these sockets are good . . . usually just a cleaning and new wiring. I must have 20 early lamp bases 1900-25, they're great. If you can't find the right shade set up - just a Edison bulb looks intriguing - like having a lamp museum in ones basement.

 

Bryant came out with the first Uno threaded fitter in 1912. Was adopted by most in 1915. The ball pull chains were around since the early 1900s in different configurations. Some were joined in halves and others were made from a single piece like this one.

You may be right on the date closer to 20, but the Nouveau influence on the base makes me think teens as Nouveau was DOA around the beginning of WW1.

 

Looks like an interesting project for the right person. Wishing you best of luck in selling it!

 

You’re a genius! May 9th 1911! Thanks