Egyptian Ruins Table Lamp

9,975

Here for your consideration is a outstanding and very rare EGYPTIAN Ruins table lamp. The shade is fully signed HANDEL and numbered#6825 and signed by Henry Bedigie , whom was Handel's premier artist. Details, and colors are the best ever and free of any chips or repairs of any sort. The Handel base is 27" high, high quality and also rare and has all the correct hardware. Because of the enormous detail, very few of the #6825 shades were produced. Also adding to the rarity of this beauty is that very few were produced of the #6825 because they were so labor intensive. Also the artist usually signed his works with his initials HB. Henry Bedigie spelled this whole name out as shown. Museum quality; premier lamp in any collection. This lamp sold for nearly double 6 years ago at Fontaines Auction House.

Philip Handel joined in partnership with Adolph Eydam in 1885 to form the "Eydam and Handel Company" in Meriden, Connecticut. When this partnership dissolved in 1892, the remaining company was relocated to larger facilities and was thereafter known as "Philip J. Handel" and then as "Handel and Company". "The Handel Company" originally incorporated on June 11, 1903 with Philip J. Handel, Albert Parlow, and Antone Teich as the primary officers. Philip J. Handel married his second wife, Fannie Hirschfield Handel, in 1906, and she became company President upon Philip Handel's death in 1914. She would remarry (Fannie Handel Turner) in 1918 and managerial control of the company soon passed to William F. Handel, Philip's cousin. The immediate post World War I period was one of tremendous growth and profitability for The Handel Company. However, the economic slowdown of the late 1920's and resulting Great Depression had a devastating effect on company fortunes. By 1929, most production had ceased, and manufacturing ended all together in 1936. In Handel's hayday, they produced many types of high quality lamps which are in high demand.