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Vintage Greist Gooseneck Lamp

  Lot # 021
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18"H ( 7" x 5" Base)
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Bedroom #3
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Lot # 021
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Vintage Greist Manufacturing Company Gooseneck Table Lamp. Model LFB. Stamped on Bottom. Companion in Lot 23.

The Greist brothers briefly owned a bicycle shop in downtown New Haven before forming the Greist Manufacturing Company in 1894. The company manufactured sewing machine attachments and other mechanical specialties. Early in the twentieth century, the company built a complex of industrial structures that are still standing and now are occupied by the New Haven Manufacturing Company. The founder, John Milton Greist (1850-1906) apparently changed the spelling of his name around 1881, because his company was originally called the Griest Manufacturing Company. In addition to sewing machine attachments (for which the founder had around 50 patents, a number of which were sold to Singer, the company also made lamps, razors, measuring tools and "Griest's Mechanical Pen and Duplicating Press". John M. Greist became a very wealthy man, building his stately home "Marvelwood" on a 700-acre nature preserve onto which he brought a herd of elk and deer. He called his home his hobby and the public were allowed to visit. It's now the site of the Yale Golf Course. Greist Manufacturing closed in 1945.