Category
Lamps and Chandeliers
Medium
GLASS
Distinguishing marks
GRAMERCY PARK LIGHTING V. OF GERINGER & SONS FOUNDED 1915
Condition
Excellent
Date Period
Do not know
Size and dimensions of this item
2ft a cross at all points
Weight
about 10lbs
Long Description
Hopeing someone could help bought this Giant and beautiful shade in a thrift shop can anyone mabe tell me anything about it i have searched the internet i really can't come up with anything is it a Antique or repro just really curious its so big i have never seen a lamp shade /cieling/swag  lamp this big :)
Price Paid (If known)
9.99
For Sale?
No
Re: Gramercy park light fixture Geringer and sons
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Re: Gramercy park light fixture Geringer and sons
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Re: Gramercy park light fixture Geringer and sons
I don't have anything on the company, but shades of this type were reproduced to such a huge extent during the 1980's that values crashed for even originals and have never really recovered. Most like this today I see go at auction for less than $100.00
Re: Gramercy park light fixture Geringer and sons
Thank you for the reply i love it its going in my dining room :)
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Re: Gramercy park light fixture Geringer and sons
Gramercy Park Lighting co. was located in the Bronx, NY about two blocks from Yankee Stadium. The lamp you have was made on the production line as opposed to some of the more labor intense pieces that were made in the Tiffany department where I used to work from roughly 1973 to 1976 or 77. About 1975 the company moved its operation to Peekskill NY in with the parent company Geringer and Sons Manufacturing co., a division of Instrument systems Corporation.
They went out of business probably around 1978I'm not sure when the company opened. I was first aware of them around 1970 while I was still in college.For what it's worth, the glass in your lamp is #58 granite back bone beige opalescent, made by the Wissmach opalescent glass company in Paden City, W. Virginia, which has been in business well over 100 years and made some of the glass that L.C. Tiffany used in his lamps. The red glass is Wissmach #18 granite back ruby red.The glass was cut and one line of the panels was bent in a lear at the Gramercy Park facility.
Re: Gramercy park light fixture Geringer and sons
Thank you for the info it proudly hangs in my dinning room :)Â
Re: Gramercy park light fixture Geringer and sons
This fixture was made in the early 1970’s. I worked there.Â