Rain Lamps

I don't really collect rain lamps any more... but I suppose I do, if I find one of the models I really love. Here are the ones I like the most. Description in comments below.

  • wizard of ooze

    I just found 2 large rain lamps by Creators. They are the swag 'Shower Lite' model. They both need extensive restoring. One I'm almost finished with. They're both different versions of the 3 Graces.

  • Jonas Clark-Elliott

    View full-size for detail. Info by numbers-- all lamps by Creators' Lamp Co. unless noted. All models made in both table and swag styles unless noted. Those marked * are lamps I really hope to find.

    1-11: earliest style small model, metal end covers. All have vertical-only lines. Table and swag versions including:

    1-- Venus, table, Antique Bronze, tulip bands. (missing flowers)

    2-- Venus, table, copper, plain. *

    3-- Venus, table, Antique White-Gold, tulip bands. (missing flowers)

    4-- Venus, table, Bronze, tulip bands. *

    5-- Venus, swag, Antique White-Gold, narrow rope bands. *

    6-- Same as 5, less white/more gold version of finish, tulip bands.

    7-- Oriental, table, Chinese red, tulip bands.

    8-- Oriental, swag, Chinese red, tulip bands. (May be getting this one soon)

    9-- Oriental, swag, Antique White-Gold w/ verde-blue tulip bands. *

    10-- Oriental, table, Chinese green, tulip bands. *

    11-- Don Juan, swag, Antique Bronze, wide rope bands. (note pointed bottom cover & spiral columns) *

    12-- Hybrid big/small: Venus, swag, Antique Bronze, later-style filigree decorations & later style bottom cover.

    13-- Hybrid big/small: Venus, table, Antique White-Gold, earlier-style tulip bands, swag chain.

    14-18: Mid- and late-style w/ single central column, offset miniature light bulb.

    14-- Graces, bowl top, swag, gilt (two instead of normal three goddesses - missing flowers)

    15-- Venus, bowl top, table, pale gold.

    16-- Storm Children, bowl top, table, gilt. (missing flowers)

    The following two have diagonal-only lines:

    17-- Old Country Mill, table, Bronze. *

    18-- Venus, swag, Bronze. *

    19-22: Rain clocks made by Creators with MasterCrafters. Straight-only lines.

    19-- Late style w/ filigree, table, Antique Bronze.

    20-- Late style w/ filigree, swag, White-Gold.

    21-- Very plain small round, gold, table, missing flowers.

    22-- Rectangular, gold, missing flowers. (also in textured gold, w/ or w/o Old Country Mill)

    23-- Small-size plain chrome w/ clear statue, by Johnson Industries. Metal end covers. *

    24-- Family campfire w/ flickering fire, large size, swag, black/gold. (diagonal criss-cross lines)

  • Jonas Clark-Elliott

    Figures used in Creators models over the years include, not all pictured here- (those in quotes are official model names)

    "Diana" (upright goddess holding robe to chest)

    "Venus" (leaning goddess holding robe over legs - chrome models have clear cast resin Venus)

    "Three Graces" (three goddesses, facing out from center - bowl-top model has two goddesses)

    "Storm Children" (boy & girl under umbrella)

    "Dancing in the Rain" (couple dancing - figure revolves)

    Dancing in the Rain gazebo (smaller couple revolving inside gazebo)

    "Swinging in the Rain" (guy & girl on moving swing)

    Fishing (man w/ pole sways side-to-side, also kid & dog)

    Camping (man, woman, boy, girl, dog around clear cast resin campfire, flickering light inside fire)

    Angel/Cherub (gilt cherub w/ wings)

    "Water Lady" (goddess pouring oil from jug)

    "Old Country Mill" (house w/ mill wheel, wheel spins as oil flows over)

    Sailboat (sailboat w/ man rocks)

    Oriental (Chinese lady in robes, holding basket or bowl of flowers)

    "Clock" (MasterCrafters electric clock)

    "Don Juan" (classic Don Juan statue w/ sword - many of these have faux wood columns)

    Statue of Liberty (blue-colored, holding candelabra-base lamp socket)

    Woman with Dog (standing woman with dog standing beside)

    Wedding Couple (used in extra-short wedding cake lamp - two different couples known)

  • Tim Gill

    are thies your lamps?

  • Jim

    Oddly - the two rain lamps I own are conspicuously absent from the photo montage.   Where's the love?

  • wizard of ooze

    "Creators" was originally its own company, then later became a division of Haggerty.

  • Jonas Clark-Elliott

    No, I don't own these. Jim, the lamps shown are a tiny fraction of the models produced by Creators; these are simply the models I still want to find someday. Nearly all of these are the smallest sizes they made.

  • Jonas Clark-Elliott

    And right, Wiz - in the 60s and 70s, Lava was the parent company as "Lava-Simplex Internationale," with three firms: Lava Corp., Timette (clocks) and Simplex (cameras). In the 80s and 90s, Lava retained the Lava-Simplex name and became a division of Haggerty Enterprises along with Creators' (Shower-Lites) and Hobby Hill (picture lights - the cylindrical lamps you mount over a painting or inside a china cabinet).

  • Jonas Clark-Elliott

    And of course in the 90s with Creators out, you also had Exotic Sands, Inc.

  • Deb

    I got a rain lamp tonight that is similar to #17 but has the Venus figure. :)

  • Abe Hamdan

    I have the Rain lamp pictuered above # 8, "oriental lady holding a bowl of flowers" it appears to be in excellant condition if not mint condition. Does anybody know the value of it? 

  • Mr MaGoo

    Where can you get replacement pumps for these?  When I got mine the pump was brittle and broken.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.  It is the small chrome bottom and top with clear goddess lamp.

  • HughesWaveMotionMachinesLLC

    Thinking about creating a modern minimalist version of these.. 

  • Claude J

    I like the TImettes

    I also like the one (Absent form pictures) of the elephant with palm trees.

    The others,. Meh

  • The Lamp Caretaker

    I've always had a serious liking for these lamps until I purchased one and noticed dust and pet hair stick to them like flies to glue strips so it was given away.  I miss my rain lamp. When I was a kid my parents frequented a SIZZLER SteakHouse and they had several of these lamps throughout the restaurant.  I could have cared less about SIZZLER'S Steak and Shrimp special and only wanted to tag along so I could these magical lamps again.  Such wonderful memories. Always managed to keep me well behaved.  Then I would get home and beg for something to eat because all my time was spent mesmerized. I also miss SIZZLER SteakHouse.

  • Kristen L

    I picked up a really cheap feeling rain lamp for $15 recently.  These lamps are usually heavy, no?