A sweet eBay find from the summer of 2005, this wide-hinge, solid-cast GE Novalux from the mid 1930s came to me in nearly perfect shape, with a beautiful set of GE Holophane lenses and the finial. It was already stripped of paint, except for the visors.  I can’t recall if I had the sockets rewired or if a previous owner did it.

I painted it and mounted it to a short pedestal with a Highway Signal & Sign Co octagonal base.

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