Pairpoint Beginnings
The Pairpoint Merger
Markings
Luxury items not in favor
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Pairpoint Beginnings

The Pairpoint Manufacturing Company was established in 1880 in New Bedford, MA. Producing coffin fittings and metalwork, Pairpoint approached its neighbor, Mt. Washington Glassworks, about a possible merger. Combining metalwork and glassware production in 1894, their merger created lamp and lamp accessories including the well known Pairpoint lamps.

The Pairpoint Merger

From circa 1895 to 1930, the newly formed company was best known for their blown glass shades in three types: blown out reversed painted shades, ribbed reverse painted scenic shades, and landscape shades. Cut glass lamps and lamps with metal overlay were also produced by Pairpoint during this period. 

Markings

Pairpoint stamped its lamps on the lower inside or outside edge with several different markings and their bases made of brass, silver, copper, bronze, or wood were always signed and marked. 

Luxury items not in favor 

Pairpoint's sales lagged seriously during the Great Depression because its product line was predominantly luxury items. From 1938 through the 1970s, numerous reorganizations of the company took place in an effort to revive Pairpoint, but none captured the activity or productivity of the early decades of success. 

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