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Post# 1047488   10/11/2019 at 20:19 (1,657 days old) by wiskybill (Canton, Ohio)        

I completed this project today.

This is a Virden Light Products pull-down fixture that I bought at a local estate sale a few weeks ago. The original finish was brass and badly tarnished, but the fixture was complete. It was in the basement on a shelf and had obviously been there for some time. The house, a split-level, was built in 1967 so I think it was original.

The finish being so bad, polishing would have removed the brass, I decided to re-spray it in a dark bronze. New wiring completed the update.

I'm very pleased with it and think the update was a good save.

Bill



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Post# 1047497 , Reply# 1   10/11/2019 at 21:45 (1,657 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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That's a very good save.  The shade alone is worth any work the fixture needed, the dark bronze shows it off beautifully.  


Post# 1047500 , Reply# 2   10/11/2019 at 21:50 (1,657 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)        

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Nice job!

 

I wonder why these fell out of favor.  I think a fixture that can be raised and lowered would be something that would sell today.

 

We had an ugly one in our breakfast room when I was a kid.  It wasn't anything I'd have wanted to save, as it was a weird looking thing with a pair of old fashioned bumpy milk glass chimneys poking through a rectangular canopy of dark brass.  Hideous.  It likely came from Ward's bargain room.


Post# 1047503 , Reply# 3   10/11/2019 at 22:39 (1,657 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        
Looks very nice

Actually better than if it was brass.

I knew a few people with this kind of fixture. A relative of my dad's that lived around the corner had one in the house they built in 1954. My Uncle Kell and Aunt Julie also put one in the kitchen of their 1965 house.


Post# 1047505 , Reply# 4   10/11/2019 at 23:38 (1,657 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)        
Love that shade!

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Beautiful job Bill!


Post# 1047514 , Reply# 5   10/12/2019 at 05:18 (1,657 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Beautiful Bill


Post# 1047738 , Reply# 6   10/14/2019 at 23:02 (1,654 days old) by sarahperdue (Alabama)        
Superb

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That's just marvelous! Good find.

Sarah



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