Featured An unusual milk-glass lamp... HELP NEEDED PLEASE!

I have this delightful milk-glass lamp that I'd like to know more about. I'm of the mind it was produced in USA due to its electrical fixtures & fittings. It would sure be nice to know its date or age of manufacture, and also if a low-wattage light-bulb replacement can be bought, as it's not an English standard bulb.

The glass is fixed to the metal base and it doesn't remove. The total height of the lamp is 9" and it is definitely glass, not ceramic.

 

Did you see this one? They believe "It is my understanding that it was produced by Laboratoire (a factory unknown to me) and the pattern is: Issue Nombre. I have no further information."

http://blackwhitemilkglass.com/gorg...al-glass-milk-glass-lady-lamp-very-scarce.htm

 

That, was my own listing of the lamp, some while ago. They are my photos too! I didn't sell and I still ave it.

 

Thanks to Google, it will live forever in the bowels of some obscure database.

 

I wish it would work in my favour at times. I lost countless photos from my Ruby Lane shop, when my old computer crashed 15 or so years ago I've managed to locate one or two Pinterest, but less than a handful from say 1000+ irreplaceable pics.

 

Where does it say Laboratoire? Because that means Laboratory in French seems like something should follow. And how do you know the pattern is Issue Nombre? If this language is found on your lamp, would you please post close-up photographs?

Debora

 

looks like a 'marriage' as the bust/head doesn't really fit well on the base. The base looks to be from an Aladdin lipstick holder night light; so it's likely that a standard low voltage bulb might work. Are you certain that the head is glass and not porcelain? Maybe searching for the head figure alone might help.

examples of the Aladdin night light; note that several of these show the UL sticker...
lipstick holder night light aladdin - page 1 | WorthPoint

also google: Aladdin giftware

 

Is it possible that the Laboratoire is part of Underwriters Laboratory? Are they international? And the Issue Nombre standing for the English "Model Number" or something like that?

 

D*** you're good, TallCakes. I was pondering that 1960s tole base and you nailed it. It's a marriage.

Debora

 

There's an Underwriters Laboratories sticker on this lamp with same base, also made by Aladdin so there's that mystery solved.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-underwriters-laboratories-1853045131

Debora

 

Old UL sticker (off a lava lamp, of all things.) Note No. Issue.

Debora

 

Well, look at that sticker!

 

Not being a lamp component also moves the possible date of the head back from early 20th century to late 19th.

Debora

 

I’m not sure if this thread is still monitored or if the original poster will see this, but I have one that is, apart from the base, exactly the same. I got mine at an auction a few years ago and I think is ceramic or porcelain judging by the texture of the material where the base is attached. It’s not smooth like glass but kind of rough.
I’m curious if you ever found any more info on this.

 

this one is listed as ceramic and has Aladdin Sticker:
Alladin Portable Lamp Vintage Ceramic and Metal Art Nouveau Figurine Bust Sculpture Great Condition 8.5" X 5.5" - Etsy

 

Seems to have been a novelty lamp importer. Pre-1963 from the Calif. abbreviation.

Debora