I was pleased upon opening the boxes to see the lamps packed well with no damage from shipping. A smaller box contains 8 roughly cut pieces of glass per lamp that must be installed under padded retaining clips after you separate the lamps upper and lower halves. The clips are too short and/or the padding too thick (I had to shave most of them down with a razor blade) and feared that each piece of glass may crack, but they didn't fortunately. The lamps installed easily and the wires are of a good length to work with. The finish is mediocre, there were a few areas with small chips and in one spot, extra material that broke off revealing the bare base material. Overall, better than anything I could find at a big box store, but I don't expect them to last as long as I would like.