Whether to Invest in Antique Tiffany Lamps or Buy New

Dale Tiffany Lamp

Deciding weather to invest in buying an antique Tiffany lamp or a newly made Tiffany style lamp is a big decision.  Antique Tiffany lamps, especially those in mint condition can be extremely expensive, but they are a true investment that will go up in value as long as they stay in mint condition.  Depending on how rare the lamp style is, and what type of lamp (floor lamp, table lamp, desk lamp), and what period the Tiffany was manufactured, the price will vary.

Even newly made Tiffany style lamps can be expensive due to the need for manual labor hours and skill that go into making the lamps, and the material costs to make a stained glass lamp.  Stained glass is a very labor intensive art form, which means that it is expensive to buy even before you start to take into account the value of a rare antique.

Some of the most popular designs by Tiffany, like the Wisteria pattern, are highly coveted and treasured by Tiffany lamp collectors.  Part of the cost involved is for the style of manufacture that Tiffany used, copper foil soldering.  Copper foil is expensive and adds to the overall cost of making stained glass.

When weighing your decision on what to buy, think about where the lamp will be in your home or office, and how likely it is to be maintained in excellent condition.  Then you also need to consider whether you will be unhappy with a reproduction.

If it is just the look you want, I would recommend a reproduction, but if you want the genuine item, then hold out for a real Tiffany lamp.

Dragonfly Stained Glass Night Light

Dragonfly Stained Glass Night Light

A night light is a small source of light that offers comfort or convenience in the dark. Earlier people relied on long-burning candles kept in a fireproof metal cup and tealights for illumination during the night. But with the advancement of science and technology, they have been replaced by other products. Today electric lights, such as stained glass night lights have become the main source of light after dark.

 

The sense of security offered by night lights is one of the main reasons that they have always been used by people. Moreover, they are of great help to nyctophobics, who have a morbid fear of the dark. Decorative night lights also serve in reducing the fear of darkness, found commonly among children. Nightlights prevent you from tripping over stairs or obstacles by showing the layout of a room even without having to turn the main light on. Besides, they are also used to mark an emergency exit.

 

Dragonfly Stained Glass Night Lights from WindowAlert are decorative night lights made from stainless steel. These artistic decorative night lights display unique artwork with intricate stainless steel designs and incandescent stained glass. This makes these night lights equally attractive whether on or off. Dragonfly Stained Glass Night Lights come with an on-off switch. The four watt bulb of these lights lasts up to 3000 hours and gives you value for your money. They are 5-1/2 inches tall and are UL listed. The Dragonfly Stained Glass Night Light makes an attractive and useful gift for any occasion.

WindowAlert is a decal that may be applied to home and office windows. The decal contains a component which brilliantly reflects ultraviolet sunlight. This ultraviolet light is invisible to humans, but glows like a stoplight for birds.WindowAlert

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Four Aces Stained Glass 40 Inch Lighting Fixture

We’ve been avid poker players for well over thirty years, and it doesn’t look like we’ll be slowing down anytime soon. Over the years, we’ve heard people talk about their tables, their decks of cards, roulette wheels, poker chips, and of course their abilities to play poker. Through all of it, we never found anyone that cared about the surrounding atmosphere as much as we did. We wanted to share our story behind our purchase of the Four Aces Stained Glass 40 inch Lighting Fixture.

What it comes down to is that we are the kind of people that enjoy the compliments we receive from working hard on making each area of our house entertaining. We don’t necessarily go overboard, but when purchasing something like the Four Aces Stained Glass 40 inch Lighting Fixture, it’s supposed to make a statement to all our visitors. If it doesn’t go over well, we take it back, if there’s a bunch of positive compliments then we keep the Discount Lighting Fixture.

Sure, it may sound a little strange but we don’t care. All we want is for everyone to say our place is the best one to host one of these Unique Lighting Fixtures. So far, we’re doing good and if memory serves me correct, we’ve only had a bad compliment about a fixture once. It had to do with this neon clock that we purchased from a weekend flea market. To make a long story short, you basically get what you pay for, which is the only time we did that after this incident.

Reading back through what we’ve wrote, it must seem so trivial to you, but we’re a couple of 50 year olds who strive to be the best. We were high school sweethearts and it had that movie type feel. He was the basketball star, I was the head cheerleader, and the rest as they say is history. So you can imagine how competitive we are, which is why getting positive comments is important to us.

When it came down to it, though, we really didn’t have much to worry about when we bought the Four Aces Stained Glass 40 inch Lighting Fixture. It is completely hand made with stained glass (you already knew that), the appropriate length of link chains, a three bulb setup, with red on the top and black on the bottom in color. In the middle are the words, “Four Aces” with cards (pair of aces) on each side. Then each corner has one suit in a deck of cards.

That’s about as best as we can explain it. The Four Aces Stained Glass 40 inch Lighting Fixture is in a league of its own and when you see it, it will remind you of those old billiard table lights in local bars and restaurants. For us however we placed two of them in our recreation room. One over the craps table and the other over the Hold’em side. We can’t wait to find something else like these Home Lighting Fixtures real soon. Actually, we’ll go take a look now.

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