A Dazor Floating Fixture 2124 desk/work lamp used in the 1950s & 1960s in Antwerp in the Diamond industry.
It was sold by a tools shop in the heart of the Diamond business in Antwerp, as labeled: S. Weisz, 126, Rue du Pelican, Anvers. (Pelikaan(s)straat, Antwerp, Belgium).
Special thanks to Louis Brusselmans for the diamond cutter lamp and all the information. His grandfather was one of the founders of the diamond cutting business in the Antwerp Campine (Antwerpse Kempen).
Diamond Cutter Pendant Lamp
Materials: Green and white enamelled iron conical lampshade. Brass E27 socket with a ribbed porcelain ring.
Cord Length: 100 cm / 39.37”
Height: 18,5 cm / 7.28”
Width: ∅ 15,4 cm / 6.06”
Electricity: 1 bulb E27, 1 x 100 watt maximum, 110/220 volt.
Any type of light bulb can be used, not a specific one preferred.
Period: 1900s – 1960s.
Designer: To be appraised.
Manufacturer: To be appraised.
Other versions: This Diamond cutter pendant lamp is probably only made like this one. I have never seen another version.
This lamp was used in a diamond cutters workplace in Sint-Job-In-‘t-Goor (Brecht) in Belgium from the 1930s until the early 1960s. There were 3 diamond cutter companies at that time in the small village. In the 1960s these pendant lamps were replaced by TL-lights ( fluorescent tube).
Pictures below: how these lamps were used. Here suspended in the restored “Slijperij Lieckens“, part of the diamond museum in Nijlen, near Antwerp, where the diamond cutting in the Antwerp Campine started in 1908.
Links (external links open in a new window)
Diamond cutting museum Nijlen – Kempens Diamantmuseum
Diamond museum Antwerp, Belgium
The Diamond Club of Antwerp – website
Antwerp diamond district – wikipedia
The De Beers Group – Wikipedia
Sint-Job-in-‘t-Goor – Wikipedia
Vintageinfo
Other lamps used in the diamond industry