Posted 11 years ago
vintagelamp
(1147 items)
This is an antique "Hugo Schneider" peg lamp with ruby red seeded glass. I found this at a local shop.
From the internet:
The company was founded in September 1863 as Häckel und Schneider in Pauns Dorf, near Leipzig, with 20 employees who made lamps by hand. Hugo Schneider was a 27-year-old Silesian salesman; his partner, Ernst Häckel, was a plumber, who had started the business making lamps, tinware and painted wares in 1854. Over the next few years, the company began making gas lamps, the production of which soon increased with the growing use of gas lighting. Schneider took over his partner's share of the business in 1871 and by 1880, the firm had grown from a simple factory to an industrial plant, with 200 employees. It soon grew to over 300 employees and began exporting not just to other European countries, but also to South America, Asia and Australia. Schneider died on 1 June 1888, and his son, Johannes Schneider-Dörfel took over the business.









It's truly beautiful!!!
I look forward to seeing what people come up with.
Thanks vetraio50! Me too!