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Hey All ,  Restoring a old Paidar Barber pole.... need a top glass globe... the round milk glass type. I know you can buy them online, but thought I would check here first, to see if anyone has one to sell me.

Thanks  Shane :help:

Love the old barber poles.  How are you restoring the old cast iron parts - porcelain, powder coat, or paint?  There is a company in Independence, MO that we redo the porcelain, I have talked with them in the past and they have done a number of barber poles before.  Do you still have the old spring powered clock motor or has it been converted to electric?   If you have a pic of the one you are redoing I would love to see it.  Heres one of my old Koken model.  It has an electric motor in it now, but I have the old wind up one too.

I picked up my globe from Lowes, there is a small section of lighting that has the glass globes.  I can't find the link to the Lowes one, but here's one from Home Depot: http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-203066110/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=10+globe&storeId=10051#.US1WW-vwKWV

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the reply. I picked the Barber pole up yesterday. I have restored a few poles in the past, but sold them all. I would hopefully like to keep this one for myself. I say that about everything I restore LOL and somehow it ends up sold.

I bought it off a sign shop who has been in business since 1940. Not sure where they got it, but the man I bought it off took it all apart and installed a new paper inside cylinder, new glass, motor, and light fixtures. (It is electric)

The only thing that is not really up to par is the paint. I can paint it up, and make it look almost like porcelain. It is going to hang in my basement, so weather won't be a factor.

I attached a pic. I am also missing a cover-plate....

I checked home depot yesterday, they only had a 8 inch globe. Also checked a lighting shop. I am going to stop by Lowes later today. Thanks.

missing cover plate....

Here is the globe that was on my last Barber pole my pinstriper painted. Going to do something similar again to this one.

Very nice............gotta get one of those for the man cave

I like barber poles have a Marvy 55 on the wall made dec 15 1951  ,Just picked up another 55 and a 405 but I guess I am just getting my parts from Marvy