Uniforms So what makes this lamp "hideous"?

[major bill]

My wife wanted me to take my "hideous " lamp to the dump rather than bring it to our new condo. So is this hideous because of he wears a hideous uniform? I was reminded that the lamp could not go in the livingroom, den, or our bedroom because it would clash with the decor. Get real, what decor could this lamp possibly clash with? I guess he will have to go in my library.

 

[Lincoln56]

Wish you success in this endeavor! I'm a big 0-for my marriage in this type of 'negotiation'.

 

[lupaglupa]

And this, this is why God made man caves.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

I lucked out. My wife's notions of decor are similar to mine-- roughly summarized as dark wood, Tiffany-glass patterns, birds, and historical and military references (for example, she hung reproductions of segments of the Bayeaux Tapestry in our front room and dining room-- her primary area of interest is the medieval period in England and continental Europe. They contrast interestingly with my Civil War naval prints). And lots of bookshelves. We clash, but not on these sorts of things!

 

[redbob]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[major bill]

I believe this Cavalry sergeant lamp would look great with dark wood. We have oak in livingroom and walnut bedroom set.

 

[bankerpapaw]

Looks good to me. However, like your wife, my wife wouldn't like it.

 

[Irishtom29]

It's just hideous by nature; tacky and kitschy, like a Hummel figure.

 

[KianGaf]

It's certainly an esoteric item and not for everyone. It looks quite interesting to me although I'm no decor expert by any means.

 

[Kurt G]

I don't see any rank , but he looks a bit like Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War.

 

[John Hartwell]

It's just hideous by nature; tacky and kitschy, like a Hummel figure is.

I was thinking more like a glittery painting of Elvis on purple velvet.

De gustibus non disputandum!

 

[donna]

Probably your library. Is that where you will keep your Civil War collection and books?

I get to keep many things in my study. It is my collection room plus where my computer is.

I am the collector in our family but my husband is very nice about my things. We do keep certain things in certain rooms or curio cases.

 

[UCVRelics]

Your going to either have to keep it or throw it away as I don't think even Good Will would take it. I only have one word for it, WOOF

 

[Package4]

My wife wanted me to take my "hideous " lamp to the dump rather than bring it to our new condo. So is this hideous because of he wears a hideous uniform? I was reminded that the lamp could not go in the livingroom, den, or our bedroom because it would clash with the decor. Get real, what decor could this lamp possibly clash with? I guess he will have to go in my library.

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I like it, kind of a "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" feel to it! Got to find a home for it.

 

[DixieRifles]

My wife wanted me to take my "hideous " lamp to the dump rather than bring it to our new condo. So is this hideous because of he wears a hideous uniform?

Tell her someone on your chat forum offered you $250 for it.
She might move it to the Living room.

 

[7thWisconsin]

That´s definitely something you don´t see everyday.
I used to have one similar to that when I was a teenager, actually: it was a Revolutionary War soldier brandishing a pistol. The base was a drum. I loved that light. To this day I don´t understand why my wife breathed a sigh of relief when the cat took an interest in it and knocked it off the dresser, decapitating the brave Son of Liberty.

One of the country churches I served had a lot of donated stuff, and memorial gifts, so you had to find out who gave something to the church, and whether it was sentimental to them before you discarded something. But if the item was broken, no one would complain if you discarded it. There was this lamp in my office that looked like a ewer and pitcher, finished in this really shocking egg yolk yellow glaze. It was breathtakingly hideous, somebody´s 1975 early American craze fever dream. I had to throw it down the steps from the fellowship hall 8 times before it broke...

 

[dlofting]

I like your lamp. I think it has a lot of character. However I can see that not everyone has the same taste as you and I so maybe your library is a good place for it.

 

[KianGaf]

I don't see any rank , but he looks a bit like Teddy Roosevelt during the Spanish American War.

That poor man is turning in his grave as we speak the hero of San Juan would not be pleased I reckon.

 

[Kurt G]

Not saying this applies here , but back in the day I had a very nice cousin who was into ceramics....very ugly ceramics that she had no talent for . Unfortunately my sister was given many of these as gifts and had to make sure they were displayed when the cousin visited . I told my sister that I would remove them and she could claim that I had accidentally knocked them off the shelf and destroyed them . Fortunately my cousin got into another hobby and the ceramics eventually "vanished".

 

[farrargirl]

Well, @major bill , if you can't keep it, I got a great use for it. Ship it down here and I will run over to Saltillo, Mississippi and gladly find a home for it, especially if that's a whiskey barrel I see.

This is my scoundrel gt.gt.grandfather, Abel Farrar of the Al. 3rd Cav. He was left wounded in Knoxville, wound up in Fort Delaware, tried to escape once, and lived to be 83.

Here's a few fun facts about him. Especially his answer in the pension question

Seriously though, I love that lamp.....