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Old 11-13-2020, 05:39 AM
 
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First I'll admit they are repros. I guess. The base says 1972 but don't they look like they're from an earlier time?

They're huge. Not sure they'll find a home in my house but they were dropped off outside of the base thrift store. They were offered to me. The picture is misleading, they are yellow. Not hand painted.

My sister thinks the style is from the 50s. I was thinking a little older.
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Old 11-13-2020, 06:38 AM
 
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The bases look very 1920s-1940s to me. Keep in mind that older styles continue in manufacture as long as people will buy them. The 1970s was a time of massive nostalgia which would explain the 1972 manufacture of a style from 40 years before.


I like them a lot, for a traditional house.
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Old 11-13-2020, 08:48 AM
 
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The bases look very 1920s-1940s to me. Keep in mind that older styles continue in manufacture as long as people will buy them. The 1970s was a time of massive nostalgia which would explain the 1972 manufacture of a style from 40 years before.

I like them a lot, for a traditional house.
Thanks turf. I was thinking post depression, if that makes sense. Kind of what you said.

This house is so unusual they may work but I'll need to buy a large sideboard.
Some of my friends my friends have suggested changing shades.
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Old 11-13-2020, 10:07 AM
 
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If the bases say 1972, then that’s what I’d assume their age is. In the 1970s lamps were quite tall. End tables were short, and lamps were tall. In terms of style, these are “period” pieces, meant to resemble an older style of furniture. Perhaps they were meant to be “French.”

The shades are quite dated and, to my eye, ugly.

I own two ginger jar lamps from 1970. They are quite large. They are not as big as some California style pieces were, but they approach their girth. They are also tall.

If you were to replace the shades and harps, you might like the bases better—if you like the bases to begin with.

Lamps from the thirties and forties would have been classically shaped, and would have been smaller.
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Old 11-13-2020, 04:00 PM
 
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The bases look as if they were inspired by Victorian oil "banquet" lamps, but the shades, while apparently original, don't do much for the bases, in my view.

So I'd hang onto the shades and store them, if I had room ( and reunite them with the bases if I ever sold the lamps or gave them away), but would replace them with something simpler yet traditional in style.
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Old 11-13-2020, 05:22 PM
 
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They look to me like something that people would have in the living room in the late 60's, early 70's to go with their Early American style furniture.
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Old 11-14-2020, 01:58 PM
 
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I have been trying to be nice.........
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Old 11-15-2020, 07:13 AM
 
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I have been trying to be nice.........


Butt ugly, right?
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Old 11-15-2020, 07:28 AM
 
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Butt ugly, right?
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Old 11-15-2020, 07:38 AM
 
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Thanks turf. I was thinking post depression, if that makes sense. Kind of what you said.

This house is so unusual they may work but I'll need to buy a large sideboard.
Some of my friends my friends have suggested changing shades.
All of my lamps are either vintage or antique, so I have a lot of latitude in tastes. But TBH, I'd consider changing lamps instead.
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