One of the Edison art-models (English) passed through my hands many years ago. The light in it was is a small gold plated pagoda with pierced sides to let the light out. The lid on the light fixture looked like the coved lid of a C-250. Bruce
> Your notation on your photo page about the lamp shade brings up an > interesting point: I'm not sure that these earliest electric motor > machines, including the "electrola" XVI were originally equipped with lamp > shades. I've seen pictures of them with the elongated, "flame shaped" > lamp fully exposed with no shade at all. The metal shades seem to have > become standard fare with the orthophonic vintage models. Those shades > were generally spherical and were meant to be used with the globe shaped, > frosted glass lamps. Anybody else know anything about this? > > Greg Bogantz
