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Gramercy Park Lighting Co Purchase

By HeatherFilo, 23 October, 2012
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Good Day,

We just purchased an old chandelier - we would like to get any information on this you might have. Thank you so much for your time.

Heather

Category
Lamps and Chandeliers
Medium
Glass/Metal
Condition
Excellent
For Sale?
No
Photos

GaryDo

10 years 9 months ago

Re: Gramercy Park Lighting Co Purchase

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.

By about 1978 they were out of business.

Your lamp is the model 650 in white.  I can't see enough detail in the glass to positively identify the manufacturer, but most of those were made with glass 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.

I'm not sure when Gramercy opened.  I was first aware of them around 1970 while I was still in college.

The glass was cut and bent in a lear at the Gramercy Park facility.

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