Locomotive Table Lamp

No steam, no track, and a perfectly good pulley.

This locomotive table lamp is contemporary, made of brass and iron. Lamps of this kind borrow from the railway age and its workshops, when lights were hung on rods and counterweights so a mechanic could move the beam to the job at hand. A rectangular brass shade sits on a jointed arm, clamped to a tall black rod. A spoked brass wheel near the top carries a cord down to a turned black weight, and a square flared iron base holds it all upright. Thirty-four and a half inches high.

It goes nowhere, on schedule.