Cricket Lamp Parts

Every day is eventful to me.  A client in the Boston area sent me some pictures of his Gerald Thurston cricket lamp.  In need of a bent white glass panel.  Until that day I couldn’t tell you who Gerald Thurston was.  By the end of the week I had made 10 white bent flashed glass panels for Gerald Thurston cricket lamps.  The lamp design was ahead of its time.  Something I would credit to the new look of many 1970 lamps.  I also think the design would have worked out great for the Pixar jumping lamp we all know about. (See video here).

Gerald Thurston Cricket lamp glass diffuser early 1950-1959

After doing my research on mid century lighting.  A period of lighting I had no prior interest in.  I was contacting my list of antique dealers.  Expressing my new found niche and my collection of  bent white opal flashed glass diffuser that will fit the 1950’s Thurston Cricket lamp.  I also googled and found several auction sites listing  the cricket lamp with NO diffuses.   I contacted them by phone and sold six of my glass diffuses by the end of the day.  The moral of the article.  “It’s hard to sell a lamp if its broken”..