Featured Cranberry/red candle holder shades - where from/maker?

Picked up a set of 4 (2 of them pictured) of these candle holders with red shades with a diamond optic pattern, the silverplate holders(very very well used but still in usable shape) are "international silver" also marked "marc stevens inc" and a "61" inside a square. The shades are 6 inches high. The bases are 5" high. Any idea on age/maker of the shades? Going to cross post the bases in the metalware forum.

Thanks for looking!

 

Thanks for showing !!!
I'd like to see flames flicker in those !

 

Lovely, Aaron. Here is some info on the International Silver Company:
http://www.silvercollection.it/internationalsilverco.html

 

I suspect the shades are Bohemian.

 

Beautiful, Aaron! Perfect for this time of year, but get those bases/holders polished up for best effect!

 

Stevens was the retailer and if I recall correctly the 61 in the square means they were made in 1961 (but I'll have to check that memory against something more concrete.)

And the bases are silverplated (silver soldered is the giveaway there.)

 

Scratch that 61 in a square being 1961. The brain was sending me a Gorham dating scheme by mistake.

More coffee, please!

 

That date's probably about right though. As a rule, any company using "silver" in a mark is manufacturing silverplate. Sterling manufacturers don't generally put the word silver in the name. International Silver calls their stuff International Sterling when it's the real deal. That said, I'm betting these would look great polished up with some evergreens around them.

 

I suspect the shades are Italian and good chance from the 1970s.

 

Are you thinking Empoli? If the bases are as late as the 70s, then that's feasible.

 

Bases are before 1981, when International sold their plated holloware business to Oneida.

 

Not thinking of any particular maker.
Only looking at the bases, thinking late 60s early 70s. 70s was when we had an influx of Italian glass. They copied the burmese, cranberrry, Mary Gregory etc.

IS could very well have ordered the glass from Italy to go on their candlesticks

 

I have one question for you. Are the shades actually cranberry glass or are they covered with a cranberry coating (I see some white spots)? The reason I ask is that I picked up a cranberry glass jar like thing last year with the idea of putting a candle inside and it turned out to be coated. As soon as the candle was lit, the little scratches showed up perfectly. But I still kept it because it was a pretty light.

 

I think the white spots are reflections from lights in the room.

 

They mostly are reflections yes... there is some light chipping and scratching on the very base I will see if I can get some pictures of that to determine if the glass is clear underneath.

 

Many thanks to everyone for your input - after considering all your thoughts I think probably can safely say 60's or 70's and most likely Empoli/italian glass. I'll give the bases a polish and post pics with candles in them soon

 

Love your new avatar, Aaron!

 

Gotta love the classic Coca Cola Santa ads.