Vintage Gypsies: In Search of the Truth

Vintage Gypsies: In Search of the Truth: What a long strange trip it's been. I bought this bitchin' little 14" lamp at a Flea Market and have not been able to find out much about i...

In Search of the Truth

What a long strange trip it's been.  I bought this bitchin' little 14" lamp at a Flea Market and have not been able to find out much about it. There are no markings of any kind on it.  So let's do it together!

The body is a white chalky material, unpainted and it's soft, like chalk or gypsum. My first Google search is for "white nude chalkware lamp".  In those results, I found a great site www.tvlamps.net with a great collection of tv lamp pictures and descriptions.  Wonderful collection! But I don't see anything similar to my lamp. Another search turned up www.atomicwarehouse.com that had really great 50's lamps...made me want to change up my living room decor! But still nothing. Many, many searches in different ways:
female nude chalkware lamp; vintage nude plaster lamp; 40s nude lamp; torso plaster lamp; female torso lamp. Nuthin'. Not on eBay, not on Worthpoint, not Etsy. Hmmm.  Now I've been searching for hours and can't find anything even close.  Does that mean it's rare or that I'm just missing some obvious search words. What to do?

It's time to call for help. I've put a shout out to the Etsy Vintage Team.  I'm confident someone will be able to get me in a direction of identification! But after being on the Discussion Board for days, only one possibility surfaced--that the lamp was possibly made with a museum store gift item (the torso) from the 1910-1930's.  Hmmm. Maybe! A great possibility, but I just don't think so. The torso material seems too soft for someone to successfully drill all the way through to wire it without it causing structural problems, but not out of the realm of possibilities!

Well, we will update when we find the complete story.  We know it has to be somewhere!