Let’s see those table lamps - vintage or modern

Love the Laurel lamps, BTW great room love the MC
Thanks! The McCobb credenza was a birthday present from my wife. That's her womb chair - original first gen black legs. Needs reupholstering though. We started collecting before most of the price craziness. Man, the one piece I'm still looking for, though, has proven elusive - a George Nelson for Herman Miller 'Action Desk' with the rolltop. As far as I am concerned, that is the best looking desk ever made. We've got some other neat lighting as well - have to get some more pics. Green lucite spaghetti base with a fiberglass shade; and one I made for my wife - a purple swirled Empoli base with a one dollar yard sale fiberglass shade that I completely took down to the wire hoops, cleaned, and restrung. I'll take some pics later.
 
Having not looked through every post, I see pretty much only electric lamps. Here is a pair of original Aladdin Model B oil lamps circa early 1930s made in Chicago, IL. The chimneys are authentic Aladdin's from the 1970s. They put out the light equivalent of a 60w bulb when burned using an Aladdin mantle. The style of the font is called a Washington Drape. The shades are originals from the 30s and are clear/frosted. It's amazing that these have not been broken over the years but we take very good care of them, they are display only as seen

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Having not looked through every post, I see pretty much only electric lamps. Here is a pair of original Aladdin Model B oil lamps circa early 1930s made in Chicago, IL. The chimneys are authentic Aladdin's from the 1970s. They put out the light equivalent of a 60w bulb when burned using an Aladdin mantle. The style of the font is called a Washington Drape. The shades are originals from the 30s and are clear/frosted. It's amazing that these have not been broken over the years but we take very good care of them, they are display only as seen

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Impressive, of course now it would be neat to see the light they produce. The half frosted glass shade is especially a nice design.
 
Impressive, of course now it would be neat to see the light they produce. The half frosted glass shade is especially a nice design.

Kind of like a Coleman gas light if you remember them, this is what the mantles look like (not my image), I had a lot of this Aladdin lighting but sold it all 15 years ago except the two Washington Drapes and I have a Aladdin nickel Caboose light set w/ brackets somewhere still packed away. There is a 1890-1900s Rayo nickel lamp across the room on one of the old lady's sewing tables. The shades are very cool, having correct ones for the font is very rare. a nice complete pair is a real rarity, no chips anywhere to the fonts or shades, shade trees are really nice also. The images in my above post open huge for detail if you click on them so warning to phone users

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Thanks! The McCobb credenza was a birthday present from my wife. That's her womb chair - original first gen black legs. Needs reupholstering though. We started collecting before most of the price craziness. Man, the one piece I'm still looking for, though, has proven elusive - a George Nelson for Herman Miller 'Action Desk' with the rolltop. As far as I am concerned, that is the best looking desk ever made. We've got some other neat lighting as well - have to get some more pics. Green lucite spaghetti base with a fiberglass shade; and one I made for my wife - a purple swirled Empoli base with a one dollar yard sale fiberglass shade that I completely took down to the wire hoops, cleaned, and restrung. I'll take some pics later.
YEs please post pictures soon
 
Okay, but just to warn you the lighting is pretty bad this late at night! This lamp was made from a 1960's amethyst colored Empoli cased glass decanter in the optic pattern. These decanters are pretty common on ebay and etsy, but the cased ones (lined with white opaline glass during blowing) are more desirable and costly. But - sometimes you can get them cheap if they don't have the top, or have flea bites around the top. In any case, got this one, used a diamond drill bit to put a hole in the base and made it into a lamp base. The wife fell in love with a pair of these in the 'swirl' pattern in baby blue - but that's a tough color to find. That pair of lamps went for $1400 bucks. This one cost a lot less to make.

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We also have some cool floor lamps - but this thread isn't about those. I'll get some better pics tomorrow.
 
Okay - here's a much better picture of the Empoli lamp.

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And this is a really cool 1960's lucite spaghetti lamp that is on one side of the couch. The base has a small 15 watt bulb inside. This lamp was the very first gift my wife ever gave me when we were dating. She rocks! This lamp has the coolest vintage fiberglass shade that I have ever seen as well and it's in perfect condition. Usually these lucite lamps have had a tough life - the spaghetti will be broken in places - this one is completely intact! Came from a *GREAT* little mid century specialist shop on Perez Avenue just outside of Palm Springs in a town called Cathedral City. If you are ever in the Palm Springs area, you have to check out the shops on Perez Ave if you are into mid century stuff - there are 7 or 8 places all within walking distance in addition to the awesome places in downtown PS proper. By far though, the best mid century place in the entire area is called Hedge. Bring your dollars though - it ain't cheap!

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