...the seller's reply, verbatim and in its entirety:

"BECAUSE WE GOT A FEW EMAILS FROM COLLECTORS WHO DOUBTED IT AGE/ORIGINALITY, AND IT WAS EASIER FOR US TO TAKE OUT THE WORD "VINTAGE" THAN DEAL WITH THE BIAS SIDE TAKING OF E-BAY. HOWEVER AFTER RESEARCHING LAMP GLOBEMORE, TODAY WE FOUND OUT WHERE IT MAY HAVE CAME FROM. MISSOURI HWY 40 MOTEL THAT FROM 1929 TIL 50'S OPERATED UNDER THE PIERCE PENNENT NAME IN COLUMBIA MO.
Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service
National Register of Historic Places
historic Pierce Pennant Motor Hotel

The Pennant Motor Hotel was a conplex of buildings, arranged in a partial quadrangle, consisting of the terminal building, the hotel-garage, the service station and an open-sided shelter protecting a battery of gasoline pumps. The terminal and the hotel are in the Williamsburg restoration style. The Williamsburg restoration was begun by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. just two years before the construction of the Pierce Pennant Motor Hotel. Beverly T. Nelson, designer of fine homes in the St. Louis area, was the architect. The firm of
Will W. Johnson of Springfield, Missouri, was the major contractor. The floor plan of the motor hotel resembles a flattened "Y".2 The building faces west, and opens on a curving driveway that connects with Old Highway 40. A corridor, reached from the main entrance, runs east and west, with wings on
the northwest and southwest of this main corridor. A third wing is due east of the lobby. The building is four stories high, with a basement. FROM U.S HISTORICAL SURVEY ESALES4U"


Looking for better Gulf items: signs, globes, cans and paper - especially porcelain Gulf flanges, and Gulf A-38 & A-62 ad glass...