Antiques Roadshow

it was my mother's ever since I was a little kid it's always been in that house well the lamp we know was made by the mo bridges company in Milwaukee Wisconsin we know that because of the signature on the bottom of it which we should take a look at this lamp made in Milwaukee at probably the late 19th early 20th century is really in the arts and crafts style now Moe bridges was working off of designs that the handle glass company and the pear Point Glass Company made very famous in New England and this is what I would describe as as a notch down in in quality from from those lamps those reverse painted lamps have beautiful scenic images on them as this one does and you can see the landscape decoration on it it is part of a design movement that I would describe as the brown decades it is mid 19th century to late 19th century when people were decorating in their homes and very somber colors and dark Browns and dark greens and wine reds and this is finally we get to the middle class when they're able to appreciate the high style of brown decades at the turn of the century another tip-off on this lamp in terms of its value is the fact that this does not have a bronze base to it it looks like bronze but it's not it's probably an iron base that has been patinated in this brown color and you've done a wonderful thing here you've got 25 watt bulbs in this lamp which is perfect to really enhance its color it really does look like a sunset it's the type of bulb that would have originally been in the lamp I would have praised it probably in the two to three thousand dollar range you