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06/06/13, 10:46 PM
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New help with this may have fit and how used?
I know this is a lamp shade of some sort, but I don't know what kind? I have been collecting lamps for sometime, but don't know this one. Some of you might know, have had good luck with finding what things are?
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06/06/13, 10:54 PM
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I goes on a ceiling light fixture the kind has the three thumb screws around the base 
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06/06/13, 11:39 PM
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Sawmill Jim, thought of that, but would hang down good ways as you can tell it is pretty large. What room would it of been used?
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06/07/13, 01:41 AM
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What room would it of been used
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One with a TALL ceiling 
(I'd say a dining room, over the table)
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06/07/13, 03:07 AM
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Maybe outside?
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06/07/13, 05:53 AM
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As Sawmill Jim pointed out, it is a hanging light fixture globe.
To answer your follow-up question:
It was one of three globes that originally hung from a light fixture mounted in the foyer of 114 E. Main St, Webster Springs, WV (which, as we all know, wasn't a very tall foyer). Because of the poor fit with the room, the original owner had the fixture removed and stored in the milk shed. In April of 1956, 8 year old Susan Jenkins (also of Webster Springs) broke one of the globes when she lost control of her jacks ball. The second globe was chosen as an urn, due to its unique combination of compression strength and aerodynamic shape, to transport Gene Rodenberry's ashes into space. You have the third globe.
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06/07/13, 07:14 AM
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Doesn't really look like n outside light to me, looks like it goes in an entryway/foyer.
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06/07/13, 07:36 AM
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Point goes downward on hanging hall or kitchen light.
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06/07/13, 08:07 AM
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A Gas Pump Globe
It looks to me like the lighted Globe that use to be on the top of some really Old time Gas pumps. I think they were Mobil Gas pumps. But, I could be wrong. If I'm right, it would be a really good antique, worth a bit of money.
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06/07/13, 11:28 AM
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...............My guess is that is approximately how much silicone it takes to fill up Dolly Parton's Busoms ! , fordy 
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06/07/13, 12:42 PM
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Awwww... You found a mommie light bulb. She fed all the baby lightbulbs from that nipple at the top. 
Figuring out the why of a design like that leads me in a different direction. I think it is post top lamp cover, possibly for a maritime environment or one with lots of snow. Thinking like a designer, that punge of glass on top would prevent buildups of snow or (more specifically) ice. Without it, when a somewhat high wattage lamp came on, the cold of the ice on top, coupled with the sudden heat of the lamp, would crack a normal globe. Since spray can build ice on object on ships and near the ocean, AND the need for a waterproof diffusing globe would be important, that area would likely have the most need of something like this. I suspect the lamp sat somewhat high up in it, and that it is very rare. Google had no similar images or references.
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06/07/13, 12:58 PM
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Probably not for a house, but perhaps a theatre or other building with a high ceiling.
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06/07/13, 10:00 PM
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As you know I buy the different things. Bought some lamps and part and this was with them and I sure wanted it. It is almost a foot, have not measured it, but it is big.
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06/08/13, 08:28 AM
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Remember that 10 to 12ft cealings were the norm way back then
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06/08/13, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by braggscowboy
As you know I buy the different things. Bought some lamps and part and this was with them and I sure wanted it. It is almost a foot, have not measured it, but it is big.
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............I can tell you attend auctions where the ladies have very large globes ! , lol , fordy 
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06/08/13, 01:01 PM
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That is a hand blown opal glass white lamp shade. They are custom made in Shanghai, that one was probably made for a hotel.
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