British Lanterns

A superb pair of English copper, brass and wrought iron lanterns. Recovered from the portico of the The Middlesex Hospital on Goodge Street, London W1 when it was demolished to make...

An antique solid bronze wall lantern dating to the early 20th century, suitable for indoor or outdoor use. This lantern is beautifully styled with its weathered bronze creating an un...

This design features a graceful hand-blown glass bell. The glass is paired with a sleek cast brass circular band and Art Deco style finial. The lantern has a solid cast brass frame a...

This design features a graceful hand-blown glass bell. The glass is paired with a sleek nickel-plated cast brass circular band and Art Deco style finial. The lantern has a solid cast...

A beautiful and rare set of three hand-blown opaline glass ceiling pendants with brass gallery, England circa 1930. Most unusual opaline glass ball with finial underneath brass shade...

Dublin Lanterns in Bronze with Copper Domes and Holophane Dual Glass Shades c1938 (4) Available. Old Plank has been importing from Ireland since 1992 and these (4) Dublin Holophane Bronze and Copper Lanterns must be one of our all-time favorite discoveries. Not only are the Dublin Lanterns beautiful, but their build quality is insane for they are more like precision works of art, than commercial lighting. The exterior glass is both frosted and ribbed, while the interior has a double Holophane inner and outer shade, which we have never seen prior. To us, it is obvious that there was no budget in mind when these were designed in the 1930s, for it would have been difficult to make them more expensive to produce. Whomever the manufacturer was and there are some experts who think it was Bleeco, on St Martin’s Place, which was founded in 1921 in Brighton by Ernest Heaps, who remained its managing director until 1961 when the firm was purchased by Haven Foundries. While others thought they were French produced. The fact that the interiors of the lanterns have the Dual-wall English Holophane shades, I would tend to lean towards Bleeco. The Bronze and Copper Lanterns were installed in the city of Dublin in 1938 by Mr F. X. Algar, who was then head of the Lighting Section of the Irish Electricity Supply Board. Originally these lanterns lit O'Connell Street mounted on beautiful double armed art deco concrete...