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15th Jul 2017, 9:18 pm | #21 | |
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15th Jul 2017, 9:30 pm | #22 |
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Wonderful! I had an aunt who had one of those in her living room. I never saw it lit up, though. What a treat to see it now.
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15th Jul 2017, 10:04 pm | #23 |
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Hey, you've got a lamp covered in mosaic tiles, too! Not a Tri-light, is it?
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There's just a certain something about the light from those little tungsten filament bulbs and the impure colours you get from filtered white light, as opposed to the narrow spectrum from LEDs. Or maybe that's just a modern version of a candlelight fetish! There can't be very many surviving examples of these things, so treasure it!
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17th Jul 2017, 7:55 pm | #26 |
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"All shipshape and Bristol fashion" popped into my mind.......
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17th Jul 2017, 7:57 pm | #27 |
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Tandem, perhaps?
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18th Jul 2017, 4:00 pm | #29 |
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These were always on top of the television sets in the 1970's.
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As an alternative to the ubiquitous "Mateus Rose" wine-bottle adapted as a lamp??
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18th Jul 2017, 5:13 pm | #31 |
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No room on a modern set or they'd still be there!
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18th Jul 2017, 5:21 pm | #32 |
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Did it come with a suitable bracket to mount it on a flat screen TV?
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19th Jul 2017, 4:18 pm | #34 | |
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And also had one of the Russell-Hobbs pale blue ceramic electric percolator-coffee-jugs (like I have here, sadly minus its power-lead) with the flower-design on the side for some relaxed after-meal refreshment made with *real* ground-coffee {such sophistication!} rather than the traditional Nescafe or "Mellow Bird's" instant. I have my late-parents' methylated-Spirit-powered fondue-set somewhere if you want to relive the 1970s **properly**. |
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19th Jul 2017, 6:20 pm | #35 |
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My preferred late 1960's/ early 1970's lamp bottle was the "Triple Vintage" cider bottle, my favourite cider and something I haven't seen for years.
When mains voltages were harmonised, our mains definitely dropped from 240V to 235V. Conversely, the mains voltage at my brother-in-law's house in France, increased from 220V to ... 235V. Incidentally, I started learning Italian last year, and was amused to learn that "Cornetto" is actually Italian for "Croissant"! |
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Ice cream cones and croissants are all variations on horn shapes- cornet is just a little horn-you can play one if you're so inclined.
Getting back to gondolas, or at least period tat, my bottle based table lamp is an interestingly shaped wide bottomed long necked one that held Yugoslavian brandy in the mid '80s. With some pea shingle added it's a very stable base too.
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19th Jul 2017, 7:59 pm | #38 |
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19th Jul 2017, 10:15 pm | #39 |
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19th Jul 2017, 11:09 pm | #40 |
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Sounds like the gismo normally used for a hyacinth bulb. Melon Boats? Wedge of melon, sprinkle with ginger, cucumber sail on cocktail stick mast. Should sail happily alongside the gondola.
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