Little old eBay $5.95 lamp redo!
I'll admit that the 'before' may be a face only a mother could love, but here it is, and I was the only bidder. :-)
it was – with the cover of the teapot 4” above the pot itself. But after
soaking all the joints with WD 40 yesterday when it arrived, and then using
lots of muscle and pliers, I was finally able to get it apart. I worked for a
long time with steel wool and metal polish, but I didn’t want to (and in some
areas couldn’t) take off the patina. I had my box of various lamp parts handy,
and was thrilled that I could cobble together with different length brass rod
and some spacers (the 2 brass rings between the lid and the little handle on
top of it) the right height to make the lid sit firmly on the pot.
I had an old socket in my stash, and rubbed it with steel wool
to get off the crud, and actually liked the resulting dark copper color better
than the original socket that came on the lamp, which I’ve also cleaned up for
re-use. The wiring was very old, and I couldn’t re-use the original socket, so
got some sockets at Home Depot,
and I used the ‘guts’ of the new socket inside the old coppery cover! I
need an Edison base flame-tip bulb, so the shade will sit at the right height,
but for the photo-op, I used a small appliance bulb. The shade was one
that I had on hand, also from eBay years ago.
Note the brass dolphin handle!
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMy3dogs ME zone 5A thanked writersblock (9b/10a)My3dogs ME zone 5A
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoYou know I love OLD things with patina. I was looking at his old ceramic lined tobacco jar that is engraved on the plaque "PRESENTED TO MR. & MRS. SIMPSON, BY HIS FELLOW WORKERS ON HIS RETIREMENT, DEC. 1921". I won that for $7.50 and some of them sell for over $100.00. Many of his items started at low prices, when I saw that lamp, I knew it could be very sweet IF I could get it apart.
I JUST saw this similar one out there for $72.99. I love a bargain - Obviously! :-)
Olychick