Featured Desk Lamp

Bought this lamp yesterday

Screw holes and felt. Any idea what the original base could have looked like?

And would this hole originaly be for a switch?

And any idea how old this could be (based on style and/or socket)?

 

The stars are a nice touch.

 

everything...is a nice touch......good find !

 

But I can't see that as appropriate as a desk lamp.

 

Looks like a screw-down patio lamp from the 1970s.

 

wouldn't the stars make it an indoor lamp?

 

That's what made me think it would be for use indoors. It doesn't seem to be Dutch-weather-proof to be used outdoors.

 

I doubt that the stars make it uniquely for indoor use. And seriously, most desk lamps are neither screwed down nor do they have amber glass.

 

I imagine this attached to the top of an outdoor stone pillar.

Something like this:

 

not with holes in the top to let water in...... imlo

 

I think that would have been a buffet lamp .The stars are to let the heat out .Id guess 1920s.

 

Silly me, somehow the fact that the stars were actually holes escaped my notice.

 

One can be forgiven for such a minor oversight on such a lovely day !!!!!

 

It would work on a veranda.
If used indoors it wouldn't work as a desk lamp, with that amber glass. Maybe for a vampyre, but not for us humans.

 

Ha! Left handed on the right arm!

 

Would this hole be intended to have the cord going throught it? Or would this be for the on/off switch, with the cord going through whatever it was screwed on?

 

could have been either...
is the hole threaded????

 

Nope, simple round hole in the base. I didn't measure it, but I think it will be 1.5 cm

 

As always thinking things are bigger than they actually are...
It's 1 cm