Hubley Art Deco 2-Light Nickel-Plated Floor Lamp with Vintage Mica Shade

Description

Do (nearly) hundred-year-old floor lamps get any cooler than this? I don’t think so!!

The beauty about This Beauty is … more Do (nearly) hundred-year-old floor lamps get any cooler than this? I don’t think so!!

The beauty about This Beauty is that it works in just about any (antiques-dominated, as we like it) environment. So, you Arts & Crafts/Mission folks will be pleased by the hammered metal (look) and various other 1910 design elements; you Art Nouveau folks will glory in the organic designs found particularly on the “breaks,” and you Art Deco fanciers will revel in the geometric aspects as well as the stylized floral motifs! You 50’s fanciers can go away now.

Something for (almost) everyone, in other words; and more than that, Beauty across the boards!

This lamp’s in excellent condition, rewired and capable of taking any wattage you care to use. I’ve installed a floor rheostat to operate it, as there’s no switch on the lamp (originally this lamp had pull-chains descending from the sockets, through holes in the bobeches, long gone). The pull-chain sockets almost never survive their decades of use and they’re not replaceable. Hence the presence of the floor switch.

The finish (nickel over iron and/or brass, which I’ve cleaned up) is original and in excellent condition with the one exception of an area on the base that had a “water encounter” and has been compromised slightly, and there’s a close-up photo which documents this. Photos are unforgiving; but I’ll say that in “reality” the compromise is barely noticeable, and can always be put to the side or back. Think of it as “not there.” Both bobeches are missing teeth, four on one and three on the other. The lamp must have been pushed over by the dog at some point and they broke off. Again, put them to the back and no one will ever notice, as the candle covers obscure that area (you know anyone who’s almost 100 and has all their teeth?).

The lamp sports a vintage mica shade with totally fab, geometric Art Deco designs. It’s in extremely fine condition as you can see from the photos. Of course there’s some minor flaking here and there, its having been handled by humans for nearly a hundred years.

I’ve seen only a small handful of such signed Hubley floor lamps throughout my (lengthy) antiques career, and this one is right up there at the top, something you’ll treasure as have I. With the mica shade, it’s downright museum-worthy.

I’ll ship the lamp base separately from the mica shade, which is reflected in the not inconsequential shipping price.

Measurements: 65 inches high including the finial. The base is about 12 inches in diameter; the shade measures about 17 ¼ across (point to point), 8 top to bottom, and 15 ½ deep. less