(A) I've got all four original shades, the other two being in about this condition (how do you like your toast, crispy?). But, I know just the custom shade maker who can create brand new shades using these frames! Oooff, how cool is that? These are 13 inches high to the top of the highest socket, figure on adding about 6 or 7 inches to that to include the shades. Well, the lamps are all brass with their original chrome plating, which is in excellent condition, and (obviously) Art Modern/American 30's vintage. Three balls for feet, how do you like them apples? (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(B) Again, solid brass with the original chrome plating, in very good to excellent condition. They're mock candlesticks that were created as lamp bases, not the other around, as we're used to seeing in our parents' homes (ooooo...strike one for our team!). They're 15 inches to the top of the sockets. (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(C) A pair of highly coveted Chase bakelite and chrome spherical bases, 10 inches tall to the top of the socket. Of course I'll replace the frumpy brass sockets with vintage sockets that have been chrome plated. (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(D) Tres chic, nothing less -- clear and blue lucite! (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(E) By Cowan, with classic Deco motifs. (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(F) A very heavy, high-quality piece of glass molded as a lamp base -- French, perhaps? Oui? (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(G) Glazed porcelain, German, pre-war. (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(H) I do believe this is by the Kopp glass company. A rather slick Modernist piece, wouldn't you say? (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(I) Just the thing for your eternal adolescent's 60th birthday gift, then he won't have to buy the Corvette. Cheaper, too. (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(J) This is cute! Polychromed ceramic, mimicking ancient Chinese artifacts both in style and glaze... but in a fetching Art Deco style! (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(K) Darling, can I have the cupid lamps by Aladdin?

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(L) Yes, Dear, if I get the opalescent lyres also by Aladdin... (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(M) Bakelite lamp bases of this quality are hard to find, but here they are! (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(N) ...and so are multi-colored lucity bases hard to find! Aren't these too cool? (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(O) Hard to see in this photo, but the bases are nicely etched with a floral motif, and the shafts are wheel-cut as well. Pink glass. (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(P) You won't find a zippier pair of militariana (is that a word?) lamp bases? Roll out the cannons... (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)

(Q) Sterling design on silvered bronze, by Silver Crest.

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(R) A particularly fine bakelite lamp base, about 15 inches tall. (e-mail Jack to start the conversation)