L.222

One of the rarest Wild & Wessel lamps, which are almost never offered on eBay. These lamps with the characteristic shade must be very rare indeed; in all these years I haven't seen a single one on eBay, except for this lamp here, which was even offered complete with all original W&W parts. Incredible luck!

The original fabric border was later replaced with glass fringes. However, as these fringes were chosen carefully and in a colour that matched beautifully, I left them on. The only downer of the lamp is the broken font, but it has been well glued. The entire lamp is extremely intricate to assemble. Parts made of copper sheet are assembled together with black painted wrought iron parts and formerly copper-plated brass screws to form a gothic style. I had to disassemble it for cleaning.

The iron inner shell in the vase was partly badly rusted. I had to spend a long time sawing it out of the vase. In order to reattach the vase to the column and screw it tight, I had to build my own threaded brass construction. I decoloured all iron parts in caustic soda, carefully sanded them, pre-treated them with Hammerite rust converter and painted them with Revell black paint (SM 302). I carefully cleaned and polished all copper parts.

The shade carrier was broken several times in the upper part and soldered with an additional ring. I removed this ring and repaired the rest.

This lamp is one of the rare, exceptional lamps in my collection.

Lamp Data

Added by me:
Nothing. All parts of the lamp are original W&W parts (except for glass fringes).

Cleaning and repairs:
See above.

Lamp body:
Lamp body made of black painted wrought iron parts and profiled copper sheet. Elaborate assembly from several parts. Brass screw heads (copper plating rubbed off). Base with heavy iron weight, on 4 feet, ca. 14 x 14 cm. Column of fluted copper tubing. Inner iron bowl completely rusted and removed.
Drop-in font of transparent glass, broken parts glued. Font lid of stepped copper sheet, Ø 145 mm.

Burner:
16’’’ Central Vulkan burner of Wild & Wessel, Berlin, copper-plated, with gallery raiser.
Wick knob marked: W&W Central Vulkan.
Wick tube marked: 16 W.&W. Central D.R. Patent 18574.
Original Central Vulkan flame disc, marked: Central Vulkan 16 W.&W.
Original Central Vulkan wick.

Glass chimney:
16’’’ Central Vulkan chimney (pinch/ball type). Height 293 mm, Ø fitter 58 mm.
Marked: Logo W&W Central Vulkan 16''' - D.R. Patent 67719.

Shade and shade holder:
Flat shade, white milk glass, original shade by Wild & Wessel, glass fringes (added later).
Height 80 mm, Ø fitter 280 and bulge 306 mm.
Original shade carrier by Wild & Wessel made of brass with 3 arms carrying a brass gallery at the top, on which the shade is placed.

Lamp dimensions:
Height up to collar 37.0 cm, total height with chimney 71.8 cm.
Total weight 3920 g.