General Information

Serial #

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Part Number

1

Total Parts

5

AKA

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Patents

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General Description

Glass shade, metal fittings.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

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Lexicon

Group

Lighting Technology

Category

Lighting devices

Sub-Category

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Manufacturer

AKA

Plume Atwood

Country

United States of America

State/Province

Connecticut

City

Waterbury

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

Unknown

Canada

For part of their working life (from sometime after 1967 to 1993), these lamps and two other identical ones (SP1379) were used as light sources in a CSTM exhibit.

Function

Electric lighting device - to hold and provide housing for lamp bulb, and to connect it to electricity, in order to provide light.

Technical

Example of decorative domestic lighting fixture. Use of electricity for home lighting goes back to 1880's, but did not become widespread until early decades of the 20th century./ Plume & Atwood was originally founded in 1869 as a mfr. of lamp burners by Lewis Atwood.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Cast lettering inside fitting reads: "THE PLUME & ATWOOD MFG. CO./ WATERBURY, CONN., U.S.A."

Missing

Lamp bulbs.

Finish

Translucent white glass; Gold coloured fittings.

Decoration

Shades have scalloped edge & pattern of evenly diverging ridges & grooves running from centre to edge; Shade fittings have series of concentric parallel grooves.