A collection of 3 large arts and crafts hall lanterns each with large and rare globular vaseline-glass lampshade produced at Stourbridge. The hand-crafted and beaten copper galleries in the by an unknown designer. Each lantern hangs pendant with an original period flex spacer and replacement ceiling rose for suspension.

As Found:

• 1 shade missing glass point and replaced with brass finial, see final photos)

Please Note:

• 3 available
• price for the (good) pair and other for (as found) single

Dimensions/Specifications:

• Ht.(as displayed)92cm/36in, Ht.(shade & Gal.)28/11, Ht.(shade)20/8, W.14/5.5
• supplied with 1m flex as standard
• supplied with 3in Diameter ceiling rose
• Height reducible
• Height extendable for an additional charge

Not Included:

• 3 x B.22  (8w) L.E.D GLS Bulb (Available to purchase in our accessories department)
• Screw fixings

Faulkner Bronze Company/ Jesson, Birkett & Co. Ltd

1901-1910

• The Faulkner Bronze Company was formed in 1901 by the Directors, Fred. G. Faulkner, Thomas Birkett and Arthur. G. Jesson based in Tenby Street, Birmingham.

• The firm produced light fittings, copper wares and Loetz style glass wares enclosed in copper under the “Cobral Ware” mark, a process they patented in 1901.

• Thomas Birkett was a former member of the Birmingham Guild of handicraft and he was joined at Faulkner Bronze Company by other former Guildsmen, John Webster and A. E. Williams.

• Also at Faulkner Bronze was Spencer Humphrey, known for his repousse work, and designers, Bert Harvey and Anne Grisdale Stubbs. Anne was a star pupil and gold medallist at the Birmingham School of Art. She later married Thomas Birkett.

• The firm only lasted for a few years and was reconstituted as Jesson, Birkett & Co Ltd in 1904 when Fred Faulkner retired.

• The firm continued to make the most exquisite copper and mixed metal inkwells, cigarette boxes and light fittings, often using older Richard Llewellyn Rathbone designs.
• Anne G. Stubbs was clearly a key designer for the firm and her work was often illustrated in The Studio.
• The firm tended to use either enamels or Ruskin Pottery roundels for decoration.

• The firm wound up in 1910 and Thomas Birkett went on to work for Simplex Conduits Ltd in Birmingham.

Stourbridge Glass, Birmingham

Thomas Webb & Sons, Henry G. Richardson & Sons,  Stevens & Williams, John Walsh Walsh

• The industry was established at the beginning of the 17th century by glass-makers from Lorraine in north-eastern France
• 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
• 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.
• Mostly it is impossible to say which firm produced a particular lampshade but some patterns were registered/catalogued and can therefore occasionally be attributed.