Posted 2 years ago
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Here's two more partial versions of the same general thing I've already shown a couple more of:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/241676-old-porcelain-brass-bare-bulb-hanging
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/241703-old-porcelain-brass-bare-bulb-hanging
that were just simple utilitarian light bulb holders for 'non fancy' applications more often than not installed in closets or attics or basements in places where the added expense of anything decorative would be an unneeded one for the purpose required. Both are made in two pieces to allow the whole cord/socket part to be 'twisted away' from its mounting base without having to 'unwire' anything, presumably to make it easier/safer to change lightbulbs (?) in an era when electricity was a newfangled and often 'scary' thing for consumers to deal with -- that's the only reason I've ever been able to guess why they were made to readily disconnect completely from their actual power wiring that'd otherwise have been permanently installed in the ceilings or rafters or whatnot around or over them.
The one with the short stubs of feed wire on it has now been 'painted shut' and is completely missing whatever cord first hung from it -- the other still comes apart readily and still has a stub of the hanging cord on it -- but that particular sort of wire suggests to me that it might not be original to the fixture -- that variety of (not 'twisted-pair') cloth covered cord being much more often used for household things like clothes irons, kitchen appliances, heaters, or other (non permanently wired) things that 'get hot' while being normally used.
Pics 3 & 4 show the brass contact parts inside the one that still comes apart and the only markings I find on either -- the painted one has BRYANT on its underside with a part (?) number and the other only has the number "39" inside.
