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This lamp was fabricated from two main components: a combination lamp and heater from a vintage chick incubator and a wooden sand-casting form for making brass, bronze or cast iron parts. The porcelain top of the light/heater included a transformer to step down 120 volts to heat the wires that wrap around the inner armature.
The base assembly is a hardwood form made for sand casting of parts to be machined. This particular form came from The Portland Co., a foundry and machining operation in Portland, ME that built marine engines, railroad locomotives and cast-iron building facades.
I flipped the light socket from top mount to bottom mount to keep the wiring out of sight.
my new lamp from the thrift store. =) i'm trying to get rid of all of those old halogen ones from college!
This is one of a pair of lamps that my husband turned on his lathe at school from some walnut that he rescued from the firewood pile! Aren't they beautiful! These hang over our bed.
Just a random photo of a chandelier in the Hotel Villa Convento in New Orleans. Rumor is that this hotel was the legendary "House of the Rising Sun."