Identify this lamp

[skeer]

No labels or identifying marks so far.. tried a cursory google image search and found zilch.

 

[Built To Work]

The cord and tombstones are new(ish) the base looks 50's, but the shade (albeit rusted) is shaped for a fluorescent tube.
My guess is a mass produced knock off of a 50's desk lamp.
I know nothing!

 

[skeer]

Well I think you jinxed me, this switch sure as hell doesn’t appear to be very old.

 

[skeer]

Dammit. Confirmed, this ain’t old.

 

[Built To Work]

Still looks cool. Going to make a shop light?

 

[skeer]

Yeah I’ll clean it up, give it an LED bulb and a new paint job. Just, *****. Thought I had gotten lucky again. Was raining or else I woulda pulled the base plate off before I bought it. I guess $5 ain’t bad either way.

 

[skeer]

Cleaned, painted and wired for direct led.

 

[The Cobbler]

looks great!

 

[BillK]

Looks nice. Just curious, how did you clean up the flex part ?

 

[Built To Work]

yes, looks great. also curious how you cleaned the flex

 

[Lassen Forge]

Flexsteel (or some similar company) desk lamp from the 80's, they originallyhad round buttons on top, this was a newer design, the older ones were solid cantilevered arms and a moveable ball joint thingy head mount. You held one button down while the tubes warmed up (you'd see the ends glowing) and when you released it the tube lit. The other button was to turn it off. If you blinked it just right you could get one tube not to fire.

We had these in our dispatch center back in the early 90's.. of course, fluorescent. We'd tape paper over the opening to cut down the light, I ended up replacing one of the tubes with a blacklight tube, used to piss people off when their docs started to glow!

 

[skeer]

The gooseneck part honestly wasn’t that bad. All the rust it had was legit just in the surface. I either got really lucky or this guys not very old at all.
The wire wheel was all it took to clean it up.

 

[Built To Work]

FYI - a little research on the ballast:
UL CSA markings started in 1992.
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What Does it Mean to Be CSA Listed?​

The CSA acronym once stood for the Canadian Standards Association but is not a private testing body. As the name implies, this is a Canada-based group that offers certification for mechanical and electrical products, as well as any general product that carries a high amount of user risk. In 1992, OSHA officials accredited the CSA, deeming it an NRTL alongside the UL."

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source:

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so your ballast was most likely made in Canada, eh?