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This fabulous lamp, and several others like it, adorn the newel posts of the stairs in the Old Library in Cardiff.
This Lamp shade is made out of used mineral water bottles displaying a simple but beautiful & creative way of reusing them...
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.
George Carlin quotes
I found just the right shade at the same sale - 50 cents!
Total for lamp - $1.50.
(Ceramic bird was $1 at a flea market a while ago.)
I'm not the only one in the family with a taste for old lamps. My sister won this lamp in a drawing at a furniture store grand opening in the early to mid-50s. My daughter has it in her apartment in Portland. I shined the brass today for the first time in more than 50 years.
It was so dark in our living room so we got a set of two table lamps, one little lamp, and a floor lamp. This one is near my desk. The living room is less cave-like now.
After hearing about the stuffed squirrel in my office a friend of mine graciously asked if I was interested in this wonderful lamp made from the prosthetic leg of his deceased step-father. His step dad was a law enforcement officer who had his calf shot in the line of duty.
The base of the lamp is from my grandfather's old Electrolux vacuum cleaner. I've always loved how those old automatic cord returns snap back.
The Vacuum Lamp is a finalist in Inhabitat's Spring Greening.
If ever an atomic lamp could be considered common, this is it. This design was sold through many department stores and catalog retailers during 1956. Various shades were offered, but this is the one most commonly seen. Lamp has many tiny hairline cracks, which are typical.
My bedside Lamp.Twist knob in center of base is 3-way bulb switch. The woman at the yard sale claims she has the other daisy somewhere.
Kiev 88CM with Arsat C f2.8/80mm, Kodak Tmax 100 in HC-110 dilution H for 12.5min. 20C
This lamps are at the entrance of one of the old converted buildings in the city waterfront, they just don't build them like that anymore.
F2.8 at 1/15
IKEA reading lamp i struggled and struggled to carry home - I didn't realize it was so much heavier than the NOT lamp!
Found at A-Mall south of Topeka - my first Coleman Lamp. Made in early 1920's. This was in good shape - just needed a tune-up. Cleaned the bug nests out, added a new generator, found a shade - and WOW absolutely WONDERFUL! It is no wonder Coleman sold millions of these - simple, quiet, economical
From a wonderful gathering of the South West Coleman Collectors Club near Wellington, Kansas in early June 2016.
This is one of my first "modern" lamps - that is it has a built in pump and a ti cleaner.
Originally sold with a "finial" on top of the mixing chamber to support a parchment or other globe - mine is missing parts and it is running with a spare 220D lantern mixing chamber.
This was one of the most gunked up lanterns EVER! I have cleaned it - but still has a disgusting film of goo on the bottom of the fount - but at least it stays put and lets the coleman fuel do its job - LIGHT!
Working on getting a loaner finial - likely needing to make some parts.
Shown running after cleaning the Fuel/Air tube on Coleman Fuel - although it can run on Kerosene as well.
Purchased from Restoration Hardware, these are heavy lamps with crystal orbs on the base and finials. Very glamorous when illuminated.