Pairpoint Enameled Lamp Base

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This is an authentic Pairpoint Enameled Lamp Base, signed on the bottom. It is 11 inches high, and has great unusual to find enameling on the side. This is for a puffy boudoir lamp shade or other Pairpoint 10" shade.

The Pairpoint Manufacturing Company was established in 1880 in New Bedford, MA. Producing coffin fittings and metalwork, Pairpoint approached its neighbor, Mt. Washington Glassworks, about a possible merger. Combining metalwork and glassware production in 1894, their merger created lamp and lamp accessories including the well known Pairpoint lamps.

The Pairpoint Merger

From circa 1895 to 1930, the newly formed company was best known for their blown glass shades in three types: blown out reversed painted shades, ribbed reverse painted scenic shades, and landscape shades. Cut glass lamps and lamps with metal overlay were also produced by Pairpoint during this period.