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Killer Neo-Grec Ebony Gilt 2-Light Gas Chandelier, c1875
Killer Neo-Grec Ebony Gilt 2-Light Gas Chandelier, c1875

Original Price $3,200.00

$1,999.99

If a chandelier could be a rock star, this one might be Ozzy Osbourne. With its distinctive and wide-spread tapered sheet metal arms, this is a spectacular example of a gas fixture form that was produced from the 1870s well into the new century. The fixture combines detailed white metal castings...

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Super-Spectacular 12-Light Commercial Chandelier, c1905
Super-Spectacular 12-Light Commercial Chandelier, c1905

$13,500.00

To the untrained eye, this fixture might appear to be just another over-the-top "fancy" Victorian chandelier - but it is so much more than that, and we feel very fortunate to offer it here. Probably dating to the first decade of the 20th century, during the transitional period when Victorian dec...

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Red Brass Aesthetic Movement 3-Arm Gasolier, c1883
Red Brass Aesthetic Movement 3-Arm Gasolier, c1883

$4,500.00

This nice example of early 1880s lighting has all the bells and whistles - Japanese-inspired castings of cranes, artistically scrolling bent brass strap ornamentation, delicately etched 5" floral fishbowl shades on scalloped shadeholders and a stunning Longwy ceramic insert amid warm red brass - ...

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Rare Civil War-Era Gilt 2-Arm Gasolier, c1865
Rare Civil War-Era Gilt 2-Arm Gasolier, c1865

$3,000.00

Being on the west coast, we simply don't see very many early gas fixtures pass through our shop. This one, attributed to Archer & Pancoast, is one of the earliest we've offered (see its coordinating partner in a separate listing), and we've gone to great pains to do it justice. When disa...

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Rare Civil War-Era Gilt 2-Arm Gasolier, c1865
Rare Civil War-Era Gilt 2-Arm Gasolier, c1865

$3,000.00

Being on the west coast, we simply don't see very many early gas fixtures pass through our shop. This one, attributed to Archer & Pancoast, is one of the earliest we've offered (see its coordinating partner in a separate listing), and we've gone to great pains to do it justice. When disa...

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Large Eastlake Gasolier w/Crystal Drops, 1880s
Large Eastlake Gasolier w/Crystal Drops, 1880s

$3,750.00

A very nice early fixture that mixes the popular crystal look with Eastlake styling at the time it was transitioning to the Aesthetic Movement, this would be ideal over a dining room table in an 1880s home (or any other setting where its unique charms would be appreciated). Intricate castings an...

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Truly Lovely 3-Arm Empire Chandelier, c1896
Truly Lovely 3-Arm Empire Chandelier, c1896

$1,350.00

The type of beautifully ornamental fixture that so many of us picture when we think of Victorian lighting, this example from around the turn-of-the-century nicely balances the Empire impulse to be fancy with the restraint being learned from the Colonial Revival. The intricately cast filigree arm...

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Captivating Gilt 3-Arm Empire Chandelier, c1894
Captivating Gilt 3-Arm Empire Chandelier, c1894

$1,450.00

The dance between the ornamental and plain elements of this beautiful Empire chandelier is as elegantly balanced as Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Clean and effortlessly graceful scrolling bent-brass arms set the scene for the gorgeous, intricately cast filigree components to take center stage....

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Astounding Gas/Electric Empire Chandelier, c1890
Astounding Gas/Electric Empire Chandelier, c1890

$18,500.00

This huge and remarkable 6x6 gas/electric combination fixture is a scrolling flight of filigreed fancy and bellowing beasties. Possibly manufactured by Bradley & Hubbard, this large fixture features exceptional castings and over-the-top detail. With the gas lights so high on the fixture, it ...

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Late Victorian Empire Combination Chandelier, c1900
Late Victorian Empire Combination Chandelier, c1900

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$1,650.00

With the classic cast scrolling armbacks and pierced filigree shells that define the Empire style, this gas/electric combination fixture from around the turn of the century offers generous style, light, and decorative impact. Common to later Empire castings, this one also features a mix of brass...

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Gilt Neo-Grec 2-Arm Gasolier w/Star Shades, c1872
Gilt Neo-Grec 2-Arm Gasolier w/Star Shades, c1872

$2,200.00

Gas lighting of the 1870s was dominated by the intricate white-metal castings of the Neo-Grec and Renaissance Revival styles. Though weaker and more brittle than cast brass or bronze, this material (also known as spelter) flowed easily when melted and allowed for remarkable detail and texture. T...

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Simple Gas Chandelier with a Twist (or 3), c1905
Simple Gas Chandelier with a Twist (or 3), c1905

$1,150.00

The restrained simplicity of this classic vernacular 3-arm gas fixture lets other features shine - like the outstanding original mottled or oxidized copper finish and the quirky and expressive bent brass arms. Fitted with elegant acid-etched Empire shades, this light demonstrates how you can mak...

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Interesting 2-Arm Fixture w/Striking "Lines" - c1905
Interesting 2-Arm Fixture w/Striking "Lines" - c1905

$775.00

Simple at first glance, this unique fixture reveals its true personality upon closer inspection, when one notices the subtle yet mesmerizing play of lines - both in the organic lines of the arms and in the reeding and corrugations in the fixture's components. We've taken this subtlety one step f...

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Distinctive 2-Arm Renaissance Revival Pendant, c1868
Distinctive 2-Arm Renaissance Revival Pendant, c1868

$2,450.00

A restrained yet inspired fixture from one of the harder periods to find lighting from, this late-1860s Renaissance Revival gasolier features dual arms, dual finishes, and dual faces at the center. Elegantly minimal while simultaneously decorative, this fixture might have hung in an entry, a ves...

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W.C. Vosburgh Bent Brass Pendant No. 2045, c1891
W.C. Vosburgh Bent Brass Pendant No. 2045, c1891

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$440.00

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..." Had Elizabeth Barrett Browning still been around in the early 1890s, she might have pined over this sweetest of simple pendants as we have. Proving that one doesn't have to be hit over the head with a gilded and filigreed hammer to find beauty and ...

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