Just roofed in an 800SF workshop behind our house in one of the Historic districts in Colubus GA and looking for 1920’s warehouse exterior lighting for the corners. We can buy new RLM fixtures but want the gooseneck arm with a ceramic shade (14 – 16″) and mogul base. Went to ebay but no help. We are sure someone has a pile of these because the local power companies have replaced the incandecant with low e type fixtures .Has any one else dealt with retro Fixtures?
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this is a real challenge, because the parts are likely somewhere in the world but how to find them?
In my case, I have a small (250SF) 1900 barn that I'm restoring (8x8 oak mortise and tennon construction, with a beautiful hammer beam truss roof and 20" (that's right, 20" clear, no knots) wide planks for siding).
I have been able to find onesy twoesy fixtures by poking around at architectural salvage places (when I travel for work I sometimes get a chance to check them out in a new market).
Renewal Lighting company is a good source for historic fixtures and bulbs, but they don't really make the heavy duty commercial type stuff that I think you are talking about. Unfortunately, the commercial stuff, that was probably ready for at least another 100 years of use when it was scrapped, was maybe more likely to have been pitched than saved by whoever was contracted to upgrade them.
Sundial wire makes modern wire with cloth covering, in case you want to do any surface mounted runs on the inside.
But I can not find the insulators anywhere for surface mounted wiring, still looking for a source for the kind that holds the two wires about 2" apart, against the wall.
Good luck in your search. Check out "Architectural Salvage, "or similar, in your local phone book and on Google.
Hope this helps,
Norm
Do any of these do the trick?
http://www.tocl.on.ca/autoexterior.php
You may want to look at Sternberg Lighting for new, historic style light fixtures. They mainly do light poles and streelighting, but they have a bunch of old-style wallmount lights as well. Their website is http://www.sternberglighting.com. It's not a very detailed website but you can see some examples of their fixtures, and at least get the name of their local sales rep.
One used and antique building supply place I'm familiar with here in Minneapolis is named Architectural Antiques, their website is http://www.archantiques.com/. I know they have all kinds of light fixtures, mainly indoors stuff but a lot of outdoor fixtures as well. You may want to drop them a line or send them a sketch of what you're looking for.
Or perhaps have a look at http://www.antiques-architectural.com from Alabama. They have stuff from all over the eastern half of the country. I'm sure that you could shoot them a sketch. They have a lot of stuff...
I take it you mean something like http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=63516&item=3721111369&rd=1 ?
Somewhere I've seen a bunch of them, but I can't remember where. If I can remember, I'll let you know.
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Edited 5/3/2004 10:46 pm ET by Greg