Revo enamel wellglass light, after

A restoration I've kept very much quiet. March 2020, I went into a local antique centre, and spotted this mangled mess of a Revo enamel wellglass light. Asking out of curiosity, he told me it was removed from a carpet factory local to the town, and that he'd sell it me cheap to get it gone cause he didn't know what to do with it, hence I ended up with it.

Getting it home, I immediately began to carefully reshape the bent and damaged cage, and then reshaped the heads of some brass screws to better match the original ones that were left. On discovering the washers were lead, i went out of my way to source some, and then replicate those too. One of the brass wingnuts and threads were missing also, being replaced by a now very rusty bolt. I replicated two fresh pairs of threads, and then filed some nuts down to match the remaining original. The paint on the enamelled reflector needed to come off, so I got to work carefully heating it and then scraping it back, finishing off with wire wool and Brasso to remove any and all paint remains, to bring the enamel through. Sealing with clear lacquer, the beautiful green enamel is allowed to show through.

This now left the issue of a bracket, this light is huge, about 14" diameter, I would need an equally large swan neck so it wouldn't look odd. A chance find on eBay wound me up with an age correct Revo B28 bracket. I then took the enamelled reflector to a paint shop to get the correct colour match so it would all match. Finishing the flowers in a deep purple allows for a subtle contrast. By this point, dad begun (and still does) pestering me to get it installed on the house, and something like this rightfully deserves to be installed.

However, installation was halted until the last issue of the missing glass was overcome. For this I went to a glassblowers to get one made. Trial and error eventually got me this brilliantly made glass. fair enough the sides aren't perfectly parallel, and it is a bit long, but the light now has a glass, and that's all that matters, and you really can't tell anyway. So now, all I need is to find some rubber U strip to create a gasket, and the gallery needs respraying due to the paint being damaged, and then this 1930's stunner can finally be installed.