These lights are very authentic, the metal is real and robust. You might know what I mean if you have previously purchased items online and found them rather 'fake in reality. I was worried when I ordered that these would not be the lovely metal they look to be constructed of, but some flimsy psudo-metal. It was so pleasing to find these lights to be so robust.

I would have given five stars but it is the strength of light that is an issue. The lights do not come with a globe and finding the correct globe in a high lumen globe was impossible in the hardware store. Consequently we got the best globe we could but it is not bright enough to read by.