I have managed to get through two posts on antique stained glass without complaining, bloviating or pontificating. Someone noticed this beatific attitude and wondered if I, as a curmudgeon, was ill. Not to worry. A three word phrase has gotten me back to angst and teeth-gnashing:
“Tiffany style lamp”
Why would something as decorative and pleasant as Louis Comfort Tiffany’s stained glass get me so worked up? Well, peruse any antique or collectable store or any online service like Ebay, Overstock or Wayfair and you will find this overworked and misused phrase on anything resembling a lamp with colored glass in it.
Tiffany style lamp?
No.
Tiffany style lamp?
No!
Tiffany style lamp?
Hell No!
So what do I, as the main bloviator, pontificator, and stained glass snob, deem a “Tiffany style lamp?” It would be a reproduction of one of the lamps in an official Tiffany collection. Specifically, it would be one of the lamps in the collection of Dr. Egon Neustadt and his wife Hildegard.
Never heard of Egon Neustadt? Dr. Neustadt, an immigrant from Austria, purchased his first Tiffany lamp in 1935 for $12.50 (!) and went on to amass the largest and most comprehensive Tiffany lamp collection ever assembled. See the Neustadt Collection. Exhibits of the lamps are shown at the Queens Museum in New York City and travel to other museums throughout the United States. If you love Tiffany lamps, you should go to one of these exhibits and also get Dr. Egon Neustadt’s book The Lamps of Tiffany.
Tiffany style lamp?
Yes!
Curmudgeon at Large 
I not been a huge fan of Tiffany style stained glass. (Frank Lloyd Wright prairie style is more to my liking.) But I love your two “windows.”
A collection of more than 200 lamps. Wow. What an illuminating post. (I’m sorry! *flees pitchfork-wielding mob*)
But at least we know you’re okay… or you were before I unloaded this vile joke.
Whew …. glad to know your normal is intact.
Ah, now I recognize you again. Phew. I was worried you lost your edge. 😉