For sure CatmanBoo, I was absolutely floored that they want $25 for one, but if I just HAD to run an Aladdin I guess I'd pay it. They are cool lamps & all, but TBH I never really got into them to the point that I'd pay that much to run one. I do have a couple of the old Coleman lanterns kicking around and although they work, I don't run them much.....
spicer
Lunatic Member
Wow!
spicer
Lunatic Member
Very nice.
Loiter Sack
Active Member
This is not my lamp and it doesn’t fit in my interior but this thing is pretty cool if you ask me 
This one is fun - a Scene in Action motion lamp. This one is titled "Forest Fire", for obvious reasons.
A gift from a friend who had an antique lighting business, and thought it appropriate for someone in my line of work.
The heat of the light bulb spins an inner celluloid film which creates the motion and appearance of flames.
A gift from a friend who had an antique lighting business, and thought it appropriate for someone in my line of work.
The heat of the light bulb spins an inner celluloid film which creates the motion and appearance of flames.
Very cool(hot?) Motion lamps powered by light bulb heat go back a long way. I recall seeing those when I was very young, especially around Christmas when it was rather common to make Christmas motion lamps on that principle. I can visualize millennials & newer people trying to stick CFL & LED bulbs in such things & scratching their heads when the spinning bits dont!
Not many light fixtures in this old house, so lamps are a necessity. We mostly get pottery bases and find cool shades for them: a few....
possible, was thinking the chimney looked like that tall skinny type that Alladins use. I almost bought a Rayo at the antique store but they wanted too much money, the chimney was missing, and it looked like the base might have been leaky around the bottom crimp. Oil lamp pricing is weird, people either sell them cheap because its just old junk, or want a fortune because its old. The ones they want a fortune for tend to be either new-ish ones that are really not very good, or actually old ones that are so screwed up they aren't worth fixing.
Very cool(hot?) Motion lamps powered by light bulb heat go back a long way. I recall seeing those when I was very young, especially around Christmas when it was rather common to make Christmas motion lamps on that principle. I can visualize millennials & newer people trying to stick CFL & LED bulbs in such things & scratching their heads when the spinning bits dont!
Well, that won't work, but still, that's better than using a 100 watt incandescent bulb.
made in china
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Sputnik lamp
turnitup
No, the stereo won’t break the crystal...Oh CRAP!
THOSE are some cool lights!
I have a table lamp that my parents bought for me back when I was a teen. It had a switch, like a three way, that the first click turned on a light in the base sort of a night light. Second click turned on the regular bulb up top. Third click turned both lights on. Somewhere back in time the light socket went bad and I couldn't find one like it and just put a three-way in it. That little lamp is about fifty years old now. If I tried to clean the lampshade of all the dust it's accumulated it probably would just crumble to pieces.
made in china
Active Member
Let's that get switch fixed!:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2755706010...RHE51uaQVCtHYNt0RtwxlKtZI=|tkp:Bk9SR6qXnaOxYQ
Or Leviton 48206
DeeCee
"Music is what we like to play..."
Way back when I was a teenie bopper, I built a color organ that divided Audio into high, mid and low frequencies. I didn't use the typical boxes, but hooked up Christmas lights in my room. It was pretty fun..
Nowadays I use this Moroccan lamp when I want to avoid the overhead light glare...
Nowadays I use this Moroccan lamp when I want to avoid the overhead light glare...
Very cool. Would like some small (12-ish inch) versions of this bubble light for the basement, but they all appear to be large and very pricey.
turnitup
No, the stereo won’t break the crystal...Oh CRAP!
With the availability of low-power standard E26 LED color bulbs, this really opened up the ability to run and display all sorts of vintage lamps/lights. Still need the filament option bulbs for heat, to run lava lamps and the vintage spinning motion lamps though. At 1-2 watts each to run the LED bulbs, you can fire up a ton of lamps for just penny’s per year in power. Also safer I would expect as you don’t have to be as concerned about overloading the circuit that you are running these off of.
R-2-R
Super Member
I remember many, many years ago (more like 5 decades ago 
believe it or not!) I was dating this chick and once when I went to pick her up on a date, I walked into her home and they had this exact same hanging lamp on the corner of their living room, which of course quickly caught my attention.
Back then, though, thought that it was a pretty cool lamp.
believe it or not!) I was dating this chick and once when I went to pick her up on a date, I walked into her home and they had this exact same hanging lamp on the corner of their living room, which of course quickly caught my attention.Back then, though, thought that it was a pretty cool lamp.
This is not my lamp and it doesn’t fit in my interior but this thing is pretty cool if you ask me