I stumbled across one of these while I was cruising eBay. I had never heard of these before and was fascinated by the design and the idea of it. For the next few months I searched for them on auction sites and luckily managed to secure two of them for our collection. What’s crazy is one of these lamps was produced in 1943, that’s only 2 years after the Pearl Harbor attacks (the other lamp has no info on the bottom). With World War 2 occurring, did that influence the style of these lamps? Who knows, but they are cool!
The ones I ended up purchasing had different bases. One was cream like the body color and the other was a gold color.
The shades I put on these units are not original. The original shades were kind of lame and to me did not compliment the lamps. I’m not sure what lamps these came off of (maybe Majestic), but I like the look they give these Lumitone lamps. They look more Atomic.
Mel and I were searching for some cool lamps for our guest bedroom and came across these at a local antique store. These are still dusty and need a good cleaning and possible rewire.
I really dig the way the light is thrown by these lamps. It lights by reflecting light off of the white underpart of the shade.
I am not sure what my plans are for this set. I was thinking of taking them apart and powder coating them two different colors. I would do the base a different color than the shade.
We planned on finding a nice Reglor lamp set or Continental Art Company lamps but when we saw these there was no looking back.
We’ll make sure to update you’ll when we finish the restoration on these spatular set!
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