Handel Arts & Crafts Table Lamp

2,275

This all original circa 1910 HANDEL American arts and crafts lamp. The application for this lamp was a staircase starting newel lamp is in pristine untouched condition with the original gorgeous deep brown patina. The base is decorated in open work arrows in a simple pattern with high quality green glass with the heavy texture "cats paw " inside to make the glass perform . The overall height is 22 1/4" and is complete with the two original bronze screws to attach to a post. This lamp came out of a house that it was installed in new and is as originally installed(minus some dust)circa 1908. The lamp is fully signed on the base. This lamp is visually close to the work of Greene and Greene, and Stickley .

This lamp is shown in the Handel books . Very rare .Priced low to sell.

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 .