Here's a picture of my Elegant collection:
From left to right: Flock Elegant, Flock Elegant Planter, Elegant Glitterlite, Elegant Planter, Elegant.
It took me 10 years to find them all!!
Added by fog rider at 6:14pm on September 25, 2008
$38!
Yay! This is the first Flock Elegant Planter I've ever seen, other than the one in the Oozinggoo photo gallery.
The date on the base is March '73, and the date on the globe is Oct. '73. I always thought they were from the late '60's. Obviously not.
Cheers!…
nd prime a Midnight base and a steel cap, and try to mimic the yellow-green flocking. If I ever actually try this, I wanna find one of those yellow lava/green liquid bottles, and find a safe way to haze the liquid.…
lors? "Mist" (cloudy) liquid was a hallmark of these, and was intended as such by the factory. Any chance of a shot with all flowing? This yellowish-green color flock was apparently called Mexicali Avocado, and a wholesale catalog noted the finish as "scratch-resistant velvetone". A friend of mine does flocking using loose flock, spray-on glue, and a Van de Graaf generator to attract the flock to the tacky surface - I'm tempted to make one from a standard Midnight, though it'll never match the 'cool' factor of the real thing.
"Elegant" is not the right model name - technically these are Enchantresses - but the name fits perfectly, and differentiates them from the later ones. This name came from a photocopy of an ad, sent to me by Lava-Simplex in the early 90s (the first old stuff I ever saw, introducing me to the wild and crazy world of lava lamps unlike the ones sold new at that time). The ad showed both vase and planter in brass, and had a description but no model name, only "Elegant" in huge script at the top. I assumed it was the model, so that's what I called them.…