Totally cool! I have a "thing" for wagons of a certain variety, that would be awesome to find, of course, I'd have to go to a garage sale, just don't always have the time lately.What are you going to use the coal bucket for?

I considered skinneri...but then, the lip looks different, and more like bowringiana. Color does not matter, there are variations. Height is reasonable. I think what matters if the time of the year it is blooming. Here is mine from September 2007 From Orchids September 2007 And here is cerulea, in bloom now From Orchids March 2008 According to A.A. Chadwick: This delightful small-flowered Cattleya species always produces an abundance of bright rose-lavender flowers in time for this spring holiday. The first cool breeze of autumn tickles our cheeks and the smell of hot apple cider and spiced cookies fills the air, it is time for the autumn-flowering Cattleya species to make their debut. High on the list of favorites is the small-flowered species Cattleya bowringiana. With many more bright lavender blooms than its spring-flowering sister, Cattleya skinneri, C. bowringiana gives us a bouquet of flowers on a single plant. And a few pictures from the web...you can see, very similar...but considering yours is blooming now, I am inclined to say you have bowringiana C. skinneri Cattleya bowringiana

Sounds like your large light in the middle is a mogul base. You can still get them, but they're getting harder to find. I can't see a switch on the bottom, so assume it does not have the night light. Many in that time-frame did, especially if it had that onyx insert on the base. It would have a small switch on the base. I agree with Linda this one looks forties up to mid fifties. I don't know about the shade. So many of them were covered in a plastic film many people left on the shades to protect them from dust, it may be original, but most of the old ones had scorch marks where heat from the incandescent lights left their mark. I also suspect it may be a replacement somewhere down the line, albeit a retro one. The shallow-depth cylinder style (mid century modern) shade starts to become more common by mid-fifties, as opposed to the inverted vase-shape and is not so often seen in this more traditonally styled lamp.

Someone was giving a way a rocking chair down the road, picked it up and took it home. Too weak to sit in but I painted it with some Rustoleum for metal baseboards, sand color, and put it in the front yard with flowers in it. Should last rtwo or three years. A 2 step stool we picked up and painted with automotive paint. Using it for an indoor plant stand. Point is, use whatever you have and want for a color. Clean as needed but don't make a big production out of it. For $1 you can enjoy it for a year, pitch it and buy something new.