With an A19 lamp installed. With a lamp installed it just has that "something's missing" look to it for some reason... Probably because the lamp sticks out so far from the bottom...
looking at how the ribs in the reflector form a spiral, I'm guessing this had an additional attachment that was lost over the years... I'd love to know what it was...
the question now is where on earth can i find one that fits... I suppose maybe it looks well enough the way it is but would be nice to complete the fixture. Maybe I could find a mini radial wave reflector. That'd look cool on this.
Thanks! It came out of a 1920 house but yeah this light doesn't seem to be too residential so it could have once held a harger reflector. It looks cool like this but with the lamp sticking out that far it just looks like something's missing.
Yeah, come to think of it the design looks more like it would have had a RLM reflector rather than a vapour tight globe. Vapour tight fittings are usually made of cast aluminium.
Well i said it was ancient. i don't know its exact age but it came out of a 1920s building. the bell-shaped piece is porcelain-glazed brown colored metal and the wires were very old looking. brittle cloth insulation with little black pebbley stuff in between the bundle of copper strands and and the cloth insulation. My construction teacher and I are pretty convinced that is was original to the building. it had these brittle papery discs that go in between each ceramic piece to aviod the pieces getting scratched/chipped. All i did for this light was replace the wires with new ones and give it a good bath. looks great for its age.
Nice, these older fixtures were built really well! On my boat there's an old vaportight fixture made of...SOLID BRASS! I think the socket assembly is much newer than 1940 though. I will get a pic.
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I'm wondering if this takes an larger industrial type reflector.
i don't know its exact age but it came out of a 1920s building. the bell-shaped piece is porcelain-glazed brown colored metal and the wires were very old looking. brittle cloth insulation with little black pebbley stuff in between the bundle of copper strands and and the cloth insulation. My construction teacher and I are pretty convinced that is was original to the building. it had these brittle papery discs that go in between each ceramic piece to aviod the pieces getting scratched/chipped. All i did for this light was replace the wires with new ones and give it a good bath. looks great for its age.