List Price: $177.00
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The lamp is perfect if you want a small table lamp with the traditional harp and finial shade and the ability to fill it with shells to show off, or anything else you want. From the photo it looks like the cord is inside the glass bowl lamp base and comes out the back so as to hide it. It's not. It is attached to the top of the lamp near the switch so it's hard to hide the cord unless you have the lamp in front of a wall or something that can hide it. to me that's not a big deal. The bigger deal for me is that while you unscrew the top of the lamp to add the shells or whatever else you want to add (wine corks would be nice since it comes with a cork shade), the opening is very small...not big enough for your hand let alone any shells that are round or medium/large size because they won't fit. Plus it makes it hard to add the shells because you have to drop them in since it is too small for a hand to fit in there to lay the shells carefully down in the bowl. It would make much more sense to have a larger opening so that you don't have to drop the shells into the base bowl, which causes the shells to break and can also break the glass bowl or at least scratch it. So I had to drop them one by one using my cooking prongs, which is tedious, time consuming and not very convenient. So that def. could be improved. I would have added more shells but you can't add anything that isn't very small, so only certain things can be used to fill this lamp. Wine or champagne corks are probably a better idea than shells because not only will it match the shade, they are small enough and you can drop them in without anything breaking/scratching. They should have advertised this lamp using corks instead of shells for that reason. I would have gotten a different lamp had I known all of this because I was specifically looking for a lamp to show off my seashells and had emailed and confirmed that I could do this (in addition to the shells they send you). Also they don't send you a variety of shells...they send you small plastic bag of the same exact type of seashell so there is no variety in the seashells that it comes with at all which is deceiving because the photo shows a variety of seashells. Who wants a lamp filled with the exact same type of seashell? I would have added more of my own if the opening was bigger because there is a ton of room in the bowl and the more shells you have the more you can hide the eyesore lamp cord, but because the opening is so small and the possibility of breakage of the glass bowl and the seashells I didn't do it, so it really is mostly just a glass bowl with some shells on the bottom.
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