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Antique Questions Forum / Re: TV panther lamp

« on: November 15, 2015, 07:05:44 pm »

Almost everyone here over 50 years old is familiar with TV lamps !!  Mine was black !!  Is yours marked on the bottom in anyway ??  Most had a stick on label !!  Its an odd color for sure !!

No label.  I did send an email to an expert who identified it as a Royal China brand and he had not seen this color before.

I looked hard on the feet for a casting or etching, but nothing.

I kinda like it.  My decor is very mid-century modern.  I had an idea to gut an old console TV and put a flatscreen inside it, so this little kitty might just live on top of it.

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: TV panther lamp

« on: November 14, 2015, 01:21:14 pm »

Sorry for the double post.  Board said "an error occurred."

Admins, please feel free to delete.

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Antique Questions Forum / TV panther lamp

« on: November 14, 2015, 01:17:11 pm »

I "inherited" a TV Panther lamp from my great grandparents.  It was just one of the incidentals that I grabbed before the estate sale because I thought it was neat.  I think I was 3 at the time

Anyway, I unearthed it a few weeks ago and someone was kinda marveling at its color saying they had never seen one like it.  I always assumed (from my cursory research) that it was the "cranberry" color, but they said that cranberry was much darker.  I thought I might ask someone who knows if it is just a cheapy one-off in a weird color, or if it is a rare collectible.  Doesn't matter to me.  If its worth $40 I'll keep it.  If its worth $250, I might sell it.  I just like unraveling mysteries and this is one of them.

Anyone here know anything about Panther lamps?