Birmingham Guild of Handicraft | Arts & Crafts Lantern | c.1900
£995.00
A small copper-oxidised arts and crafts lantern in the style of and possibly by The Birmingham Guild of Hasdicrafts the framework supporting the inset Stourbridge vaseline-glass cylinder with original cord-grip suspension plate. England c.1900
Ht.29cm/11.5in, Ht.(as displated)47/18.5, Diam.15/6
The Birmingham Guild of Handicraft 1888-1905
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Birmingham Guild of Handicraft was an Arts & Crafts organisation. Its motto was ‘By Hammer and Hand’.
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Around 1888 It began as a loose part of the Birmingham Kyrle Society, then became a more fully formed group within the Kyrle Society in 1890
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In 1895, the Guild set up as an independent workshop and limited company with the guidance of Edward R. Taylor.
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The Guild produced furniture and metal-ware, taking special advantage of the switch to electric lighting and the consequent need for new light fittings.
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Arthur Dixon was the chief designer and head of metalwork workshop. Other members were Albert Edward Jones and Thomas Birkett.
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Due to commercial pressures, there was a merger with E & R Gittins in 1905
Stourbridge Glass, Birmingham
Thomas Webb & Sons, Henry G. Richardson & Sons, Stevens & Williams, John Walsh Walsh
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The industry was established at the beginning of the 17th century by glass-makers from Lorraine in north-eastern France
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The industry grew and evolved for the next 275 years and glass from Wordsley, Amblecote and Brierley Hill is recognised as amongst the finest in the world
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Birmingham Lighting designers such as Best & Lloyd, Faraday & Sons, Osler & Co, James Hinks & Son and Messenger & Sons employ the Stourbridge factories to produce the glass-ware for their lights.
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Mostly it is impossible to say which firm produced a particular lampshade but some patterns were registered/catalogued and can therefore occasionally be attributed.