Featured Clueless! Help me identify this amazing lamp.

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by Jennifer Jackson, Mar 9, 2019.

  1. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    First thought was not Stiffel for this, but you never know. Any chance the letters spell STIFFEL?
     
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  2. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Where on the lamp was the sticker?
     
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  3. Right above the switch to turn it on.
     
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  4. Next to the screws that hold the diffuser on
     
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  5. Maybe the spike is a cigar poker.
     
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  6. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    That kind of location may mean that it only applied to the electrical hardware and not to the lamp as a whole.
     
  7. NaptownFTW

    NaptownFTW Active Member

    It looks like a mid 70s lamp. The sticker outline and location looks like that on some of the Stiffels I have sold. If the switch pull is oddly smooth, I would guess Stiffel, maybe a Rembrandt or Cooper.
     
  8. Gus Tuason

    Gus Tuason Well-Known Member

    It looks like the light switch is the high one. The lower switch(?) which is attached to the pointy tool may be a key may serve another purpose? Does it turn? What's its function? Does it detach? A detachable wind up key as on a music box? Just ornamental?
     
  9. It has a small nut on the inside holding it on, nothing connected internally to it.
     
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  11. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    Isn’t the F for Foter?
     
  12. Phaik Hooi

    Phaik Hooi Well-Known Member

    nice lamp! know nothing about lamps but if it is a Stiffel, try looking for this?
    stiffel_brass_lamp_stamped_large.jpg
     
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  13. I didnt see a label on that part, just the residue on the outside part.
    You all are so awesome btw!
     
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  14. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I have a tall table lamp with a milk glass diffuser and it has a silk shade. I think yours may have had a different shade also.
     
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  15. DeAnne

    DeAnne Well-Known Member

    Or this I was trying to figure out a lamp for months one time occasionally looking up different terms. Then one day I was dusting the shade with the light on LOL


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  16. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    Good point, DeAnne.

    Also be sure to examine all the metal sections on the shade for anything written.
     
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  17. 20190310_134924.jpg 20190310_134941.jpg Dunno if this helps... trying it negative.
     
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  18. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    Good eye. Now that you've shown that I believe I can see the L at the end.
     
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  19. Iowa Jayhawk

    Iowa Jayhawk Well-Known Member

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