Lighting fixture, electric

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OBJECT TYPE
ceiling/1 socket/screw fitting
DATE
1912–1940
ARTIFACT NUMBER
1966.0825.001
MANUFACTURER
Plume & Atwood Mfg. Co.
MODEL
Unknown
LOCATION
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America

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General Information

Serial #
N/A
Part Number
1
Total Parts
5
AKA
N/A
Patents
N/A
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.

Length
N/A
Width
N/A
Height
N/A
Thickness
N/A
Weight
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Diameter
N/A
Volume
N/A

Lexicon

Group
Lighting Technology
Category
Lighting devices
Sub-Category
N/A

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.

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