ID This Wooden Desk Lamp

Please ID this if you have any info on it. It's 18" high, adjustable height with rotating head. No mark found at the bottom.
Thanks!

It looks a little homemade to me - possibly a student project.

I'd guess mid-late 1980s, going on the honey pine finish.

Nic wrote:It looks a little homemade to me - possibly a student project.

I'd guess mid-late 1980s, going on the honey pine finish.

You might be correct Nic. The use of this wood, if it is pine, would suggest what you're saying but I'm not an expert on wood. The 2 things that throw me off would be the heavy metal plate at the bottom of the base which seems like to was made for this lamp and the bent plywood part that the lamp head or socket is attached to. Would a design student go through such lengths to create a bent plywood piece for a one-off lamp?

My old school had, left over from the 1960s/70s, a wood steamer in the woodwork department store room, along with many other weird and wonderful bits of kit probably outlawed by health and safety regulations, although I never saw it in use... but it's not inconceivable that other schools might have had them and actually put them to use.

The metal plate - it might possibly have been salvaged from another lamp, or adapted from something else entirely. The fact that the two screw holes on it are uneven distances from the centre hole seems a touch odd for a manufactured piece.

Good points Nic! You are so observant!
Also another strange thing about the metal plate is the whole in the middle, it doesn't seem to serve any purpose so that's very suspect too.