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Title: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: icedgold10 on July 20, 2014, 06:41:49 PM
The lamp has cherubs on it and looks bronze but underneath it has unusual colors.  What is it made of?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: mart on July 20, 2014, 07:42:28 PM
What do you mean "unusual colors" ??  Where ??
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: icedgold10 on July 21, 2014, 12:25:38 AM
It has a silver with blue hue underneath as well as the bronze it ,  so I don't think it is really bronze.   
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: frogpatch on July 21, 2014, 07:18:26 AM
It is made of pot metal or white metal with a bronze patina finish. Most likely from the 1930's. Weird bulb! Did that come with it?
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: icedgold10 on July 21, 2014, 08:22:48 AM
The bulb is one I had.  I just wanted to show it works for the Ebay listing.  It is a macaroni Bulb.  I love them.
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: mart on July 21, 2014, 05:39:12 PM
Macaroni ??  You mean Marconi ??
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: KC on July 21, 2014, 11:30:32 PM
Oh Mart...now I have Yankee Doodle song stuck in my hat "Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni...Yankee Doodle...."  LOL


Yepper, it is a Marconi bulb!  So cool! 

I am thinking the same as frogpatch on this one!
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: mart on July 22, 2014, 08:00:11 AM
LOL !! Keep on singing KC !!   You know when you start that song everyone around will join in !! Don`t know why but they do !!

I thought there was a new light bulb I didn`t know about !!
I think we all agree on this one !!
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: frogpatch on July 25, 2014, 08:06:11 AM
I never could figure that song out. Who wore the hat? The horse or Yankee Doodle? Was the horse called macaroni or the hat or the feather? Was pasta so popular during the time of the American Revolution that you would name something after it? What shape? Elbows or little three cornered hats? Little hats would hold the mayonnaise well. Something to think about.
Title: Re: Vintage table lamp what is it made of?
Post by: mart on July 25, 2014, 11:03:39 AM
LOL !!  Only you would dissect it like that Frogpatch !!!  Mmmm,,, sounds like Yankee Doodle was not too bright to call a feather, macaroni,,,,or maybe he was just hungry !!