1940s Mitchell incandescent/fluorescent floor lamp

[@cavannus]

Although vintage lighting fans love circline lamps with the tube left bare and visible (which I understand), this kind of floor lamps requires a silk shade to avoid direct glare. This shade is part of the "mogul"/six-way lighting principles, which consist of indirect lighting for general purpose and a shade for reading.

[@WilmingtonOHProductions]

BEAUTIFUL

[@lampcollector6242]

Very interesting. Never seen one like that before. How much did you pay for it?

[@nicksfans]

$32 for the lamp itself, $2 for the NOS 3-way bulb, and $1 for the used but vintage 32w Circline. All from the same store.

[@SpiritsoftheWolf]

i got one myself, bought it from an antique store

[@johnstancliff7328]

hope you can keep finding lamps for it since everything has gone LED.....

[@nicksfans]

For now, lamps still seem to be readily available.

[@vintagefansandfixtures4412]

This would be awesome converted into a wall sconce.

[@nicksfans]

It would be a huge wall sconce though! The upper section of the lamp is about 12" wide by 15" high if you include the part with the switches. I could see that working better if the fluorescent was an 8" and there was a regular medium base incandescent in the center.

[@vintagefansandfixtures4412]

Yeah, it is still an awesome find.

[@nicksfans]

Thanks! A lamp like this had been high on my want list for a long time.

[@vintagefansandfixtures4412]

I don't want to blow up your notifications but if you ever run across a brown 52" Emerson blender fan, that's been on my list a long time

[@nicksfans]

I'll keep that in mind. I saw a 52" blender at a ReStore in Austin, TX last time I was there, but I'm pretty sure it was white. I almost got it but decided against it since I already had so much lighting stuff that I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get it all home.

[@chaowei1036]

好像没有启动器，它是用开关启动的？

[@nicksfans]

Yes, there is a switch to manually preheat the lamp. However, since making this video, I rewired the lamp and two of the wires came out of the old switch, so I installed a regular switch and glow starter.