High Prices, High Style for Tiffany Lamps, Décor 

Tiffany lighting, furniture, glass ornaments, windows and even jewelry captured the spirit of the Art Nouveau movement in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Nearly 130 years after Louis Comfort Tiffany and his design studio introduced their work at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Tiffany designs continue to be admired and get high prices. […]

Top 15 Amazing Finds: True Stories of Unexpected Treasures in Unlikely Places

Spring cleaning and thrift shopping can be pretty lucrative! We are not kidding. Over the years, we have loved sharing stories about how cleaning closets and basements and going to flea markets and thrift stores can uncover treasures. Some of our stories have included a teen who found a 1909 Marblehead Pottery piece at a […]

Tiffany Studios

Tiffany Studios, owned by glassmaker and artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, made lamps from about 1891 to 1928. It made many types of lamps for electric bulbs, kerosene, and oil. Tiffany was making student lamps, blown-glass oil lamps, and hanging fixtures with leaded glass globes by 1898. Bronze table and floor lamp bases were introduced in […]

How to Identify Tiffany Lamps

Tiffany Lamps are usually marked: with a paper label, “Tiffany & Co.,” on the bottom of the base with the word “Tiffany” on the bronze base with a metal tag inside the shade on the rim of the shade with “L.C.T.,” “Favrile,” “Tiffany Studios,” or “Louis C. Tiffany Favrile” Learn more about Tiffany lamps and […]