E.DUBOIS & SCHNEIDER : FRENCH 1930 ART DECO LAMP .... veilleuse 1925 muller era

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E.DUBOIS & SCHNEIDER : FRENCH 1930 ART DECO LAMP .... veilleuse 1925 muller era:
$1000.00

E.Dubois & Charles Schneider

Abeautiful French 1925-1930small art deco lamp ornight lamp in wrought iron with a shade by Schneider in very thick moulded-pressed glass. Now an unknown blacksmith Dubois had a small workshop creating table lamps and iron mounts for vases. He mainly used glasses by Delatte but I saw pieces with Schneider Lorrain(Daum) and Muller freres too. He often gave his dark patinated iron fixtures gold coloured highlights by welding brass dots on the forged iron.The Schneider shade is signed Schneider France but the signature is hard to read as is often the case on this model tulipe. The lamp is in very good condition. The shade has a small chip on the inside of the rim. Not really a chip since there is no glass missing (see last picture). It is completely invisible on the outside and hidden by the iron mount. The lamp is 16 cm high (6-19/64\") and 13 cm wide (5-1/8\"). And it comes newly wired with stylish cotton covered twisted cord and nice european E14 socket. If you prefer I can place an old B22 bayonet one. For the US Iwill place a US candelabra base socket and US two prong plug.Free shippingoffered - insured priority mail.

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French lamps and wiring

Art deco lamps made in France were equiped with B22 bayonet sockets. For most countries like Europe or the US such sockets are practicaly impossible to use. For instance in the States 110 volt bulbs with B22 fitters are obscure, very hard to find and only one model bulb in very limited wattages is available. In spite of what sellers of unrestored pieces of poor quality claim in their ads when they offer lamps with bayonet caps sockets : except for the UK and Australia French chandeliers and lamps need to be rewired for your country. In order to fit Edison large or small screw base bulbs as used in the USA, B22 sockets have to be replaced by American candelabra base or standard/medium size Edison screw-in sockets. E14 and E27 are modern replacements for European countries. An additional complication is that the size thread used in early French lighting to connect the sockets to the chandelier mountings or lamp bases is not compatible with the modern size threads used in the USA and Europe. New American or European sockets do not just screw on to the old lamp fixtures. In order to make it possible to use an original old French chandelier or lamp with modern screw bulb bases, a specialized restorer will have to re-tap the threads. All my cleaned and restored chandeliers, sconces and lamps come rewired with the correct sockets you will need to use modern bulbs in your country.