What I got for Christmas

[cycloneman]

Originally Posted by Popgunner

Fleetwood
that's a lamp from a competitor of ours.
10 years ago or so my wife started making leglamps as close as we could to the movie's lamp. Ours had more of a gold color shade & the legs were hosiery forms like you have there. She was selling them on e-bay & for about 6 months she was the only one doing it. Then a guy started copying her lamps (what you have) & within 3 months there were 13 people on e-bay making similar lamps. My wife got $450 for one of the lamps on e-bay at christmas time on an aution & there was good money in it. We made about 250 lamps total. Ended up folks were selling cheapie ones for $39 & we quit making them.
We were getting the wood bases for the lamps from a craft company & while my wife was picking those up she bought one scrapbooking item, sold it for twice as much on e-bay & that started our scrapbooking company. I closed down my sign company & now our little family owned & run business buys & re-sells about 3 million dollars worth of scrapbooking materials a year. Just my wife & I & our three daughters. It worked out good, we just had to adapt.

Do you know if these lamps were in production years ago like in the 50's? I swear when i was a kid i saw an ad for a lamp like this.

[fleetwood1976]

Originally Posted by Popgunner

Fleetwood
that's a lamp from a competitor of ours.
10 years ago or so my wife started making leglamps as close as we could to the movie's lamp. Ours had more of a gold color shade & the legs were hosiery forms like you have there. She was selling them on e-bay & for about 6 months she was the only one doing it. Then a guy started copying her lamps (what you have) & within 3 months there were 13 people on e-bay making similar lamps. My wife got $450 for one of the lamps on e-bay at christmas time on an aution & there was good money in it. We made about 250 lamps total. Ended up folks were selling cheapie ones for $39 & we quit making them.
We were getting the wood bases for the lamps from a craft company & while my wife was picking those up she bought one scrapbooking item, sold it for twice as much on e-bay & that started our scrapbooking company. I closed down my sign company & now our little family owned & run business buys & re-sells about 3 million dollars worth of scrapbooking materials a year. Just my wife & I & our three daughters. It worked out good, we just had to adapt.

Thats pretty cool. I think this one was about $150 about 8 years ago. It had a velvety gold shade but for some reason we ended up going with this one. I think used the gold one for a retro lamp in another room or something. It might be one of yours. It may be a hosiery form. there is a little pinkish red light in the leg on a seperate switch at the top of the leg. way to capitalize on a good Idea though.

[armoredman]

I guess I don't remember that lamp or movie, sorry.

All I got for Christmas was the chance to make a lot of people happy. That was enough.