Princess & Empress Up & Running

[Bryin]

Sorry for being gone for so long, but as promised, here's some photos of the Princess and Empress on the wall and working! I LOVE THEM!

[jay]

You owe me a new keyboard. I've just ruined mine with drool. I'm new here, care to tell me where you scored them and what they needed to get running?

[Woodvetch]

I love your collections. Thank you thank you thank you for sharing. More please! Great job on the wall lavas.
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[Manix5]

Very nice!

[Bryin]

The globe for the Empress is now correct (although the cap should be a silver metal, the wood looks great). It was given to me by my partner from his Regency. It's an original wood cap and the liquid/lava is original. The rocket lamp I got years ago (along with my other 2) from England. Those were never sold in the States. The Princess I have had for years but just hung it up yesterday with the Empress. I bought both of them from ye old mighty eBay (where else?). They both have their original hanging brackets. The Empress is EXTREMELY RARE AND I believe it is the only known one that is "in tact" (correct me if I'm wrong Jonas). After hanging them up, I wonder why they didn't make more of them (or at least re-issue them). It seems so natural to have lava lamps as wall sconces!

[Jonas Clark-Elliott]

Yes, this Empress is the only one known intact, but if you consider it as having come minus globe, there have been two: I bought mine at a thrift store sans globe and it sat around for years.

I visited a junk shop and they were selling a bizarre modified Princess, consisting of the globe, cup and stem mounted on a massive, smooth-sanded, S-shaped tree branch, which in turn was attached to a three foot long oval of wood - a steep diagonal cut from a tree trunk, bark still on. Story was, some guy bought a lot nearby in the 60s, cleared it, built the house from the logs, and built furniture from more wood from the lot - I'm sure he bought a lava lamp and modded it himself.

I took the horrid trunk thing off, and put Princess and Empress together to create a hybrid (years before I got a real Princess). Now, the modded Empress and the old Empress cup and stem are off to another collector, as part of a longstanding trade agreement, and he will likely do a far better job restoring them than I did slapping together a hybrid.

[fog rider]

Spectacular Bryin!

Yup, Empress number 2 is on it's way! It'll also have a globe from a Regency. Thank you Jonas. The wait was worth it. I hope to hang it in the same room as my Crestworth sconce. Next on my wish list: a Princess.

[Modulo '70]

I simply love this retro decor and those sconces are to die for!

[Bryin]

Thanks, man. We should talk some day! I hung my Crestworth sconce in another room because I didn't think it matched the the US versions. You can see a pic of it in my pics, though. I'm trying to get everything more organized so that I can enjoy them. I have culled a number of lamps from my collection so that my favorites could be displayed properly. Just when you think you have every one, along comes another. You have quite a beautiful collection yourself!