another version of the Clara Wolcott Driskell assemblage of 2000 pieces of colored glass.....which sold, a century ago, for around $400......at Tiffany Studios in Corona, Queens, New York. By 1930 these Lamps had gone 'out of style' and were, often, tossed to the trash.....making, currently, the 'survivors' more valuable and collectable......When Billy Wilder was filming "THE APARTMENT" in 1959,,,,'Tiffany' Lamps were considered worthless relics of another Age.....The Props Dept. for that Film utilized several Tiffany Lamps....acquired at junk and thrift stores in Manhattan......then, after filming, tossed the lamps back to the trash heap! A dozen years later, I purchased a signed Tiffany Studios Nautilus Lamp at a thrift store in Shaker Heights, Ohio, for the cash that I had in my coat pocket, after the lamp had been 'turned down' by Barbara and Phillip Hoover as being 'too ordinary'.
