Charles Sweigert’s raises questions stemming from his pair of lamps utilizing a Carder perfume glass as a base and asking for examples using shapes created for other uses as lamp parts.

First, from The DeVilbiss expert, Marsha Crafts of Port St. Lucie, Florida.
I have seen several atomizers turned into mini lamps but almost always European production glass. I’m sure people wanted to do something with the beautiful base after the bulb & hose failed or the sprayer was plugged with perfume.

Someone came up with a mini socket with lamp wire & plug that attached to a threaded piece which would screw into the bottle collar in place of the atomizer. This way meant that the wire came out at the collar and no drilling of the glass was needed. Even so, it took a heavy piece of glass to hold it. These seem to date 1920-30’s but I remember seeing new ones for sale in the Paris market.

Also many of the mini oil lamps, often Mt Washington glass, were both lamps & atomizers as the glass had the lip to hold the cement for either metal collar type.

I have only seen one Carder perfume #6407 in blue Aurene with the cutting around base as a lamp and it seemed to be a post production ‘creation’. Of course DeVilbiss used Steuben glass to make a few perfume lamps.

Carder glass is quite delicate in the perfumes and would almost need to be mounted in a metal lamp like these candle lamps to be able to support the fixture. Perhaps the lamp company wanted a small size lamp shaft but it would have to be drilled through the solid glass stem which would be quit a feat.

The foot on the glass looks a bit odd/thick to me for this perfume. Also where does the lamp wire come out?
Marsha Crafts

Next, Detroit’s Mark Buffa answers
The metal base looks like it was one used by the Art Light Fixture Company, but I would need a better picture to identify. Roycroft and ALMCO also used perfume bases. We have one in Amethyst engraved with Grapes with a Cinnamon swirl ball connector. The stopper would have been used as the finial, but my did not come with one. We also have a Bristol Yellow Fish decanter made into a lamp by ALMCO. Melal. Art Studio used candlestick stems for shafts and perfume stoppers for finials. There is documentation that vases, pitchers, perfumes, and decanters where used. They were typically drilled at the factory as special orders.
Regards,
Mark