Fine pair of William IV Silvered Brass Lamps by Messenger & Son
A very unusual pair of silvered brass column lamps by Messenger and Son. Each with a shallow campanna urn standing on a cluster-column shaft standing on a triform base with stylised foliate clasps and raised on gadrooned bun feet.
Signed MESSENGER & SON which helps to date this pair of lamps prior to 1832
Originally oil lamps and now wired for electricity with silk braided flex. This pair of lamps can be wired in our workshop for use in any country
The firm Thomas Messenger (1767-1832), began in 1797 with Thomas Phipson was to become the most important manufacturer of oil and gas lighting of the 19th-century. Listed initially as: “Brass Founders, Manufacturers of Church Candlesticks, Patent Lamps, Etc.” their successors were to survive into the 1920s. Their partnership lasted until 1823, the year after they opened a London office at 21 Grenville Street, Hatton Garden. For the next two years Thomas Messenger is listed in London city directories alone and then in 1828 with his son Samuel as “Thomas Messenger and Son” at the same address. After Thomas’ death in 1832, the firm became known as “Thomas Messenger and Sons” continuing at Hatton Garden, London and Broad Street, Birmingham into the 1860s.
