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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 3857211, member: 5170&quot;]Hey [USER=4011]@Iowa Jayhawk[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re lamp geeks as well. Specifically peg lamps, but we&#039;ve got others, like the one in these photos, which is a banquet lamp from England ca. 1880. It has four spider-type legs each of which can be adjusted individually. The darker metal is copper and is made to look like leaves and/or flames, depending on your point of view. The oil reservoir is seated inside of the copper outer sheath, and you can see the frosted globe, which is original. </p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea what to even call the lamp. I&#039;ve never seen another one like it. We purchased it directly from a vendor in England. The thing is that although it sounds cool to be able to adjust each leg, in practice it&#039;s almost impossible to make the lamp perfectly level. Also, because of how the lamp is built its very difficult to polish the brass and copper without spending an inordinate amount of time on it. In addition, the supports behind the legs, which you can&#039;t see, are themselves extremely fragile; when we received the lamp one of them was broken and I&#039;ve since broken another. I try to be Mr. TLC, but this lamp presents special challenges.&nbsp; Fortunately, these can be mended.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have any idea, just by looking at these photos, what it might be worth to insure this lamp, by all means let me know. It&#039;s not a favorite because of the practical issues limned out above, but it is definitely one of a kind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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