An impressive pair of cast brass art nouveau wall lights by James Hinks & Son, each with a good vaseline-glass lampshade possibly by James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars glass, England c.1905.

James Hinks & Son, Birmingham 1865-1925

• The Foundation of Hinks success was the invention of the Duplex Oil Burner in 1865
• Hinks duplex burners were supplied to lampmakers word-wide including Tiffany
• By 1907 Hinks is producing his own range of Art Nouveau lighting at Great Hampton Street & Hockley Street, Birmingham
• James Hinks and Son only survived briefly into the new era and was taken over by Falk Stadelmann in 1925