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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 377547, member: 33"]Looks like it was actually PHILABRASGO -- with a G instead of a C. I found a few hits with that... It was apparently short for Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass, and Glass Company. (Interesting that it has "PHILA" at the beginning instead of "PITT"!)</p><p><br /></p><p>This old item on Worthpoint gives a brief history of the company (don't know where the seller got the info): <a href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-brass-bankers-lamp-base-circa-1905" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-brass-bankers-lamp-base-circa-1905" rel="nofollow">https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-brass-bankers-lamp-base-circa-1905</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Under the above link it says, <b>"History of the famous Philabrasgo name:</b></p><p><b>After years in business, Nicholas Kopp in 1901 took on new partners and renamed his company Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass and Glass Company . "Pilabrasgo" was their logo.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>In 1926 Pilabrasgo went bankrupt and Nicholas Kopp reorganized and renamed his company Kopp Glass, Inc. It recently celebrated seventy-five years of business."</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Here is an advertisement from 1914:</p><p><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qnAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA110&lpg=RA1-PA110&dq=%22philabrasgo%22&source=bl&ots=IYvTRtiEVP&sig=2XXfYsqZInhvLC8ADJ-Mk4iJzJk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO-NWll_zbAhUnwVkKHcL6DxgQ6AEIKTAB#v=onepage&q=%22philabrasgo%22&f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qnAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA110&lpg=RA1-PA110&dq=%22philabrasgo%22&source=bl&ots=IYvTRtiEVP&sig=2XXfYsqZInhvLC8ADJ-Mk4iJzJk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO-NWll_zbAhUnwVkKHcL6DxgQ6AEIKTAB#v=onepage&q=%22philabrasgo%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=qnAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA110&lpg=RA1-PA110&dq="philabrasgo"&source=bl&ots=IYvTRtiEVP&sig=2XXfYsqZInhvLC8ADJ-Mk4iJzJk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO-NWll_zbAhUnwVkKHcL6DxgQ6AEIKTAB#v=onepage&q="philabrasgo"&f=false</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 377547, member: 33"]Looks like it was actually PHILABRASGO -- with a G instead of a C. I found a few hits with that... It was apparently short for Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass, and Glass Company. (Interesting that it has "PHILA" at the beginning instead of "PITT"!) This old item on Worthpoint gives a brief history of the company (don't know where the seller got the info): [URL]https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-brass-bankers-lamp-base-circa-1905[/URL] Under the above link it says, [B]"History of the famous Philabrasgo name: After years in business, Nicholas Kopp in 1901 took on new partners and renamed his company Pittsburgh Lamp, Brass and Glass Company . "Pilabrasgo" was their logo. In 1926 Pilabrasgo went bankrupt and Nicholas Kopp reorganized and renamed his company Kopp Glass, Inc. It recently celebrated seventy-five years of business." [/B] Here is an advertisement from 1914: [URL]https://books.google.com/books?id=qnAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA110&lpg=RA1-PA110&dq=%22philabrasgo%22&source=bl&ots=IYvTRtiEVP&sig=2XXfYsqZInhvLC8ADJ-Mk4iJzJk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO-NWll_zbAhUnwVkKHcL6DxgQ6AEIKTAB#v=onepage&q=%22philabrasgo%22&f=false[/URL][/QUOTE]
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