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    Posted 7 years ago

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    Here's one more of my favorite weird old floor lamps. ;-) :-) It had last been used as a 'work light' before I got it so I don't know exactly what its original configuration/shade might have been, it is seen here as it now sits in my living room next to my favorite chair. (wearing a goofy bright red polkadot shade from Target) All I've done to it is clean it up and repaint its octagonal shaped cast iron base and lower stem (which were covered in spatters of many colors of latex wall paint) and add a new (safe) power cord to its original PAULDING turnkey socket.

    Besides having an 'adjustable height' (roughly 3' - 6' tall, with a knurled locking collar) stem to it, the rest of its hardware is also particularly nicely machined/made and cleverly adjustable. The arm the socket is mounted to is about 2' long, and the socket can swing/lock all the way around its end fastening with a pair of knurled knobs. That arm is contained in a fitting (at the top of the adjustable part of the stem) that allows it to be both rotated and extended horizontally (from the stem, as seen here) to any portion of its length, or to be removed and reinserted into a 2nd hole that would put the arm in vertical orientation to the stem (which would give the possibility of making it nearly 8' tall total) then locked in place with another knurled knob.

    I am guessing it is 1930's-40's vintage somewhere, simply because of the rectangular 'turnkey' style bakelite knob on its brass socket. Beyond that and the typical stampings on it, there are no marks on the lamp itself to suggest who really made it or when.

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