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LOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IN THE STLYE OF DIRK VAN ERP
One of the most distinctive features of Van Erp's copper lamps are their shades--the solid copper frames are inset with panels of translucent mica.
The mica panels were attached to the shades with short, folded over copper tabs.
Mica, also known as isinglass, is a heat resistant mineral.
Thin sheets of mica are translucent, meaning they allow light to pass through.
Thicker pieces of mica, or isinglass, are used in doors of stoves.
Mica is a type of silicate that can be separated into relatively thin sheets making it adaptable to such uses as Van Erp's lamp shades.
The number of panels in a shade usually equals the number of lamp sockets in the lamp fixture: i.
e.
, three panel shades had three light sockets, four panels had four sockets.
Lamps, both old and new, almost always come in four and three panel versions.
The oldest mica was often a rich, burnt orange color.
In later lamps, the mica tends to be more yellow than orange.
One way to tell new mica from old is to examine the edges of the mica panels on the inside of the lamp.
Newly cut mica has very sharp, rigid edges.
Also, the copper tabs that hold the mica panels in place will often show signs of having been bent more than once.
This tampering usually shows up on the surface of the tabs as lines in the original patina or as fine cracks extending down into the copper itself.
Finally, older mica often shows the collection of dust, wax and grease from 80 years of exposure.
Dirk van Erp's workshop was one of the few Arts & Crafts period craft shops to prosper and endure from the original Arts & Crafts Movement all the way up through its decline and renaissance in the late 1970s Dirk started making art metalware shortly after 1900 and the studio continued until the death of his son, Willam van Erp in 1977.
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