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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 841157, member: 10944"]Yello, </p><p><br /></p><p>Picked this up at an estate sale recently. I don’t know much about lighting at all. It’s not marked in any way that I can tell. Beautiful brass swans and base. Looks like most of these lamps come out of France and some out of Italy. I see lamps that look quite similar to mine listed between $200 and $2000. I assume that mine is on the lower end of that scale but I really don’t know. The home it came out of had some very high quality antiques that the owners clearly paid up for so maybe it is on the higher end I don’t know. Unfortunately one of the chains is broken and theres some tiny holes in the shade in one spot. Otherwise it’s in great shape. If anyone can help with valuation I would appreciate it. I found a Fredrick Cooper swan lamp a while back that I saw listed for $200-$400 and I only ended up getting $100 out of it so I know lamps can be a little tough to sell sometimes. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i63.tinypic.com/vi04qv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/2v7wigg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Lots of photos here: <a href="https://m.imgur.com/a/qHNhsEU" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://m.imgur.com/a/qHNhsEU" rel="nofollow">https://m.imgur.com/a/qHNhsEU</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 841157, member: 10944"]Yello, Picked this up at an estate sale recently. I don’t know much about lighting at all. It’s not marked in any way that I can tell. Beautiful brass swans and base. Looks like most of these lamps come out of France and some out of Italy. I see lamps that look quite similar to mine listed between $200 and $2000. I assume that mine is on the lower end of that scale but I really don’t know. The home it came out of had some very high quality antiques that the owners clearly paid up for so maybe it is on the higher end I don’t know. Unfortunately one of the chains is broken and theres some tiny holes in the shade in one spot. Otherwise it’s in great shape. If anyone can help with valuation I would appreciate it. I found a Fredrick Cooper swan lamp a while back that I saw listed for $200-$400 and I only ended up getting $100 out of it so I know lamps can be a little tough to sell sometimes. [IMG]http://i63.tinypic.com/vi04qv.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i68.tinypic.com/2v7wigg.jpg[/IMG] Lots of photos here: [URL]https://m.imgur.com/a/qHNhsEU[/URL][/QUOTE]
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