"Student" type lamp with glass shade and chimney.

OstadanOstadan Posts: 1,124
edited January 2022 in Product Suggestions

I cannot find a model for a vintage lamp with a 'student'-type glass shade and chimney.   Something like the lamp in the first attached image, but a single table lamp of the size and shape in the second image (but with a nicer shade). 

Note that the second image is from a juvenile prep-school novel of 1908, and the lamp is referred to in the text as a 'drop-light'.  This was before electrical outlets were standardized: if a building was wired for electricity, it was wired 'for lighting', since there were no general receptacles.  So a table lamp (styled with a chimney like an oil lamp) would have a cord that would be screwed into a bulb socket from the wired in electrolier (chandelier).  Re-creating this lamp with cord will require creative use of a rope-type prop.

Edit: actually, looking closer, it appears that what was directly attached to the light fixture was some kind of rigid u-shaped extension attachment, into which the flexible lamp cord is inserted (so only the extension thing itself would need to have a screw base).  Maybe.

 

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