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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 27097, member: 44&quot;]Well, I&#039;ve looked through my sources with no luck on spotting your particular figural spelter stem lamp. I thought I could find it for know of several child with flowers or animals figurals. Sooooo all I can say about it at this moment is that it dates 1865-1880s probably closer to the earlier side 1865-1870s because of 1. the collar, 2. the font, and 3. the base.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. This brass wide plate type of collar first appeared in the late 1860s and 1870s. Scroll down about 1/2 way:</p><p><a href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_collars.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_collars.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_collars.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2. The font appears to be an earlier roughed by lathe cut-to-clear circles or frosted with engraved circles. Hard for me to tell without feeling it.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Soapstone, slate, and marble bases tended to be used earlier than the iron bases though iron bases were used in the 1870s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowwww, there is always a good possibility the font and base are not original to the stem. I have bought just stems that no longer had their original fonts or bases and then assembled them with appropriate parts from remnants of other lamps.</p><p><br /></p><p>The font appears, not sure from these pics, to have a brass bottom cover, brass connector, and a narrow brass base ring. The stem appears to have remnants of the original bronze finish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who made this lamp, I don&#039;t know. Bradley &amp; Hubbard was probably the most prolific manufacturer of these lamps. Other manufacturers were Ives, Pipkin &amp; Brooks, Edward Miller, etc… even the Boston and Sandwich Glass Co. and Dietz manufactured them. Some of them were listed in catalogs by more than one manufacturer.</p><p><br /></p><p>The collar definitely is not original to the lamp for it was manufactured by P &amp; A after 1955 for their manufacturing moved from Waterbury, CT to Thomaston in 1955.</p><p><br /></p><p>As someone else suggested, when listing this lamp take pics of the lamp ***without*** the burner; however, I would include the burner for a freebie incentive. The tripod shade holder probably isn&#039;t necessary. It can easily be detached from the burner. Most people would probably use a ball shade on one of these lamps or just a chimney. Some use a petticoat shade on a chimney. Back in the 1940s and 50s my mother bought many of these figural spelter stem lamps in various conditions. She refitted them, painted them and had handmade shades made for them. She gave several away as wedding and baby shower gifts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciate the last pics you posted of the lamp showing a close up of the collar area; however, a level, straight-on, pic of the **whole** lamp is really a must for lamp collectors to see. Not a pic looking down on the lamp stem like your 1st pic. I really haven&#039;t a good idea what the bottom half of the stem looks like. Also in listing a good level pic of the back of the lamp and a straight-on view of the font should be included. Do include measurements of the lamp. The measurement should be from the *collar* to the base.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have included a scan of one of the pages of these figural spelter lamps from a reprint of the 1883-1884 Bradley &amp; Hubbard Mfg. Co. catalog. This will give you an idea of the type of shades used in the 1880s.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, this pic is really too wide for an online message as it is 800px wide X 562px high, 60 KB; however, to see and read easily it needs to be this size.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]6740[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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