Melrose Swap Meet Find. Vintage Hair Dryer, Converted To Industrial Art Floor Lamp. Super Cool. Rilling Hair Dryer

Super Cool Industrial Art Floor Lamp. Repurposed Rilling Hair Dryer circa 1(contact info removed)?? Maybe earlier?? RILLING Super Cool Industrial Art Floor Lamp. Repurposed Rilling Hair Dryer circa 50’s or 60’s. ?? Maybe earlier?? I don’t know. This has two light bulbs, one is inside the old hair dryer barrel and works by touching the external housing of the hair dryer, touch sensitive switch. The other smaller bulb is in the upper fluted part of the hair dryer barrel. AND IS SWITCHED BY THE ORIGINAL HAIR DRYER ROTARY NOB SWITCH. Both bulbs work. Both switches work. Purchased at the Melrose Swap meet about 10-15 years ago for $1500 or so??? This has a spring Inside the center shaft that will push the light up or allow it to telescope down into the barrel to adjust the height. However, the bake light collar is not strong enough to clamp down on the shaft and prevent the center shaft from telescoping up and down. So it is basically a fixed height lamp. If I didn’t know it was supposed to telescope up and down, I would have never noticed. It works fine without telescoping up and down. This could be from the ART DECO ERA. It is a period piece with very cool fluting on the exterior of the barrel and the hinge pivot support. I suspect it is older than circa nineteen-fifty 50’s??. But I don’t know. It is very cool. I tried googling rilling and nothing came up? But I’m not very good at googling research. It looks like it has a few bake light parts to it. The shaft collar and the bezel around the hair dryer barrel. That’s why I think it is older than 50’s era?? Bake light is pretty old?? But I don’t know much about the age. It does have some wear and tear that you might want to repair, maybe not, it functions fine as is. There is one busted wheel, I would install four new wheel casters (from an industrial hardware store). If I wanted it to roll around. The wheels push in and out of the cast iron base pretty easily, and seem to be a standard size dimension. Otherwise maybe it could be bolted to a wood or granite platform to make stationary. If you did not want it to roll around?? The pivot to change the angle of the lamp doesn’t function like it probably did when it was new. It must have a torsion spring or something inside that is not working or needs more tension. Someone wired it to prevent the head from rotating to far I guess. It doesn’t affect the operation. If you were super concerned about it, maybe some type of turnbuckle threaded adjustment rod could be installed to hold the head angle and make it look cool. I would leave it as is if it were me, hey I did leave it as is. It works fine as is. Make me an offer, it is more like an INDUSTRIAL ART PIECE RATHER THAN A FLOOR LAMP FURNITURE PIECE. IT IS SUPER HEAVY WITH A CAST IRON BASE TO PREVENT IT FROM TIPPING OVER.