EmergencyIan
Practically Family
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Five rooms and the back porch still have the type of "fixture" (or whatever it's called). Two rooms (kitchen and bathroom) have a porcelain socket with a pull chain, and the front porch has a porcelain socket that works off a switch in the front room.
There's a 1930s/1940s era two-bulb fixture with a really nice heavy glass shade in one of the downstairs rooms, and the dining room has an early 1950s era fixture with a glass shade. I want to replace the dining room fixture with what was there in 1930 (same type that is in the front room that I just finished "restoring").
I remember my Dad, aunts, and grandmother talking about the bare-bulb lightin the dining room that hung down and how they ran a dropcoard from that light over to a table when they got a radio in 1936 (there were no baseboard receptacliles in that room until the 1950s).
@Big Man , if you look a few posts above there is a full description of what you are looking to restore in your dining room courtesy of Vitanola. Seems it’s called a rosette.
- Ian