Sheaffer Pen Holder Desk Lamp

[David V]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120551644954&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

Did anyone else watch this auction as it was unfolding? Beautiful lamp, but I'm not sure about the price. I imagine it's pretty rare though, so then the demand makes the price what it will. Predictably, in the end it was a sniper fest with four separate first try bids in the last 9 seconds of the auction. I'm surprised to see so few people making multiple bids. Everyone for the most part bid what they thought and left it at that. Not typical for the bay.

 

Anyway, cool lamp. Thought y'all might like getting a look before it shuts down the listing if you didn't see it earlier.

[Roger W.]

This lamp has been selling in this range for the last few. This one has the undershade which is sometimes missing. I bid $275 knowing I was unlikely to get it. It was made by Faries Manufacturing in Decatur, Illinois in the late 40's or early 50's. I don't know of any catalogue documentation for it.

 

Roger W.

[Ernst Bitterman]

This looks like a bit stolen off one of the Martian war machines that appeared in the 1956 presentation of "War of the Worlds." Super cool!

[David V]

It makes me think it would look right on a desk in a noir film, like Maltese Falcon, even though it's about 10-20 years too new.