WESTFIELD, N.Y. — The lamp collection of Don Morris of Ontario was offered Oct. 20 by Matthew Wroda Auctions. The collection was more than 50 years in the making. The Chautauqua Auction Center in Westfield was the venue used to present everything from reverse painted examples to Pairpont Puffies and Gone With the Wind lamps. Mixed in with the lamps was a nice selection of antiques from a San Jose, Calif., collection making for a well-rounded event.

While the top lot of the day was a lamp, it shared the spotlight with an item that emitted its own kind of special light. Selling for $2,600 was a Cartier Paris rose hatpin (brooch) with matching earrings. Made of carved coral, the roses also featured diamonds and emeralds set in 14K gold. Though the set was not signed, the hatpin/brooch did sport matching numbers on each side of the pin. More importantly, the consignor had purchased the set in Paris at the Cartier store.

The lamps from the Morris Collection fared equally as well with a lovely cranberry glass on white glass Victorian Nailsea oil lamp also reaching $2,600. A white marble base completed this lamp’s look.

According to Kovels (www.kovels.com); “Nailsea glass was made in the Bristol district in England from 1788 to 1873. It was made by many different factories, not just the Nailsea Glass House. Many pieces were made with loopings of either white or colored glass as decoration.” A Nailsea Gone With the Wind lamp on a brass base having a 12 inch ball shade done in green with draping loops of white glass making up both the shade and base did well bringing $2,000.

The top Pairpoint Puffy lamp to sell was the table lamp example featuring both roses and birds on its 14 ½ inch shade. Having a brass Artichoke base, this lamp sold for $2,400, while a lovely reverse painted shade lamp with the shade featuring bold reddish-orange poppies came in at $2,300. The 18-inch shade was signed Moe Bridges.

Another Victorian example, this being a parlor hanging lamp in blue opal glass having a 14 inch shade, clear glass prisms, a hobnail undershade and polished brass lamp body was won with a bid of $2,000.

Other items that rounded out this sale included a Royal Doulton 13-piece dining set made up of a platter and 12 dinner plates each featuring long-horn cattle. Together these pieces realized $1,350.

A Tiffany Glass Studio double-tier flower frog in a luminescent dark green/blue glass went to $1,700. It wore the appropriate signatures including “5442-M, Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces Inc.” in script on the base. And a Hobbs Glass tankard pitcher, 8 ¼ inches tall, in cranberry glass, pattern #102, this being stars and stripes was won with a bid of $1,450.

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