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Post #733872 by Humuhumu on Sun, Dec 28, 2014 3:51 PM
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Thank you so much, tikiskip! Boy, your lamp and my lamp sure look identical, other than the colored resin on mine, and they both look just like the 1991 catalog image from Buzzy. Those catalog lamp pictures were almost certainly not taken in 1991, they were probably reused in the catalog over many years, but the pictures don't look super old. I keep looking for minor differences in manufacture, since they appear to be handmade-ish, and with organic materials... I would expect a little more variation, I guess, tweaks in the design over time to change up how it goes together or based on changing source materials. Fascinating to think that you could buy pretty much exactly the same lamp, thirty years apart! |