Mist yellow planter

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Comment by Jonas Clark-Elliott on February 21, 2011 at 11:25am

About "mist" lamps: The ONLY lamps sold with mist liquid were the early, slender or so-called 'elegant' Enchantresses and Planters, and the entire 1966 range was sold with a "Champagne Mist" for a time. The later-style Enchantress lamp shown post-dates any mist colors. "Champagne Mist" was cream-colored lava in pale amber liquid. The Enchantress 'mist' models had a hazy, evenly-cloudy liquid that produced a solid, glowing background to the lava, rather than obscuring it (due to the narrow bottle) for the series' four unique, wild color combos: red lava/green mist, blue lava/blue mist, yellow lava/orange mist, green lava/green mist. The very cloudy brand new China-made Lava Lites are nothing like this.

 

About the model shown: The Enchantress plain and planter of this later conical style came in four colors, none of them with mist liquid: the standard three (red/clear, orange/yellow, green/blue) and a 4th: lime green in green liquid. Thing about orange/yellow and green/blue is, in the early 70s they changed the "orange" lava to the same red as the red/clear and still called it "orange"; the green/blue first changed to a light 'sage green' (which ages badly, see the recently-posted Windsor for what an aged sage-green/blue becomes) and then to cream-colored wax in blue liquid, again still called green/blue (which ages to what you see here).

Comment by Don Souliere on February 20, 2011 at 11:56am

the picture isnt gvin the lamp any justice, It def looks better in person

Comment by Arne on February 20, 2011 at 6:48am

Whats it with those mist lamps? I was wondering did they make the fluid cloudy on purpose or is it not cloudyness but a tint or something? Dont understand why they would sell cloudy lamps as "special" unless they want to get rid of them, but they seem to be quite rare...can you enlighten me?