Mickey Mouse Boy Scout lamp

I meant to include this item in the post about Walt Disney receiving the Boy Scouts of America Silver Buffalo award (see here), but I've been so busy lately I forgot. So, instead of adding it to the Silver Buffalo post after the fact, I thought I'd just create a separate entry.



This lamp came up for sale on eBay quite a while ago. The lamp is missing a few parts and the hole in Mickey's head where the threaded post would have been has been filled and colored black, otherwise the piece was a knockout.

The licensee was La Mode and the lamp is made of plaster. The base measures four inches in diameter, while Mickey stands just over seven inches tall. La Mode also made a night light and a bookend based on this same image. The lamp was made in 1938.

Besides this Mickey as a Boy Scout lamp, La Mode also manufactured a great line of light fixtures featuring many of the main characters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including Snow White, Doc, Dopey and Grumpy, as well as a lamp featuring a short-billed Donald Duck.