Summary

Turned wooden lamp base created by Adolph Bruhn & Son, circa 1970 - 1990. It was taken from Area A at Adolph Bruhn & Son's Wood Turners Shop, 283 Coventry Street, South Melbourne. It was displayed on high shelves in area that may have functioned as display area/shop window. The business was established by Adolph Bruhn circa 1893 in Little Collins Street, Melbourne. Upon his death in 1919 it was then operated by Adolph's son Sophus Christopher Bruhn. Upon Sophus's death in 1959 his son Sophus Walter Bruhn took over the business. In 1970 Sophus reduced the scale of the business and relocated to South Melbourne. The business closed upon Sophus's death in January 1990.

Adolph Bruhn migrated to Australia from Germany in 1884, at the age of 29. He arrived in Adelaide where he lived for 10 months before moving to Victoria, where he settled, established his business, married and had five children.

Physical Description

Lamp base made from five separate pieces of a pale gold- coloured wood glued together. The body of the lamp base is pillar-shaped and rests upon a flat, circular disc which is in turn set upon a square platform. Two circular discs rest above the body. A brass screw-top tube projects from the centre of the lamp base top. This tube heads a vertical, circular hollow which penetrates the body of the lamp base and emerges as a large circular opening located in the centre of the bottom of the platform. Hollow was created as a receptacle for the electric cord.

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