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Hello I have a similar lamp. With same sticker, I can share with you what little details I have on mine. I'm trying to create a post to learn more about it as well. It is made by The Stiffel company. Mine Says Leviton and made in U. S. A. I heard that manufacture dates are usually found on the bottom of lamp, sometimes under the felt. Haven't found mine yet but there is very small imprint on the metal where the lamp shade rests

I have one very similar I paid 150 dollars for it but have seen them sell for 200 I would like too purchase it if possible my email address is [email protected]

From my dusty files ,
"Ferguson Brothers Manufacturing Company (founded 1878 in New York City) was wholesale manufacturer of furniture and accessories located in Hoboken from 1900 until the business closed in 1945..
They were Wholesale makers of domestic and office wood furniture in many types and styles, but also made some novelty items as well as goods for other trades such as slide specimen storage boxes."
Currently values for their furniture is quite modest, at auction comparable tea tables are selling for under $150.00

Your piece is a Victorian piece in the "Eastlake style", circa 1880, the style getting its name from Charles Eastlake, who wrote a book entitled "Hints on Household Taste" in 1868. In this influential book he rejected the ornate decorations favored on earlier Victorian furniture and espoused simpler more incised rectangular lines sparingly accented with machined forms, and raised panels with figured veneers for decoration. Eastlake furniture was produced on both sides of the Atlantic from about 1870- 1890, the American version of this style were more ornate than Eastlake's original designs, but his name has been forever linked to this furniture ever since. The majority of American Eastlake furniture was constructed of walnut, with later pieces being made of lighter colored hardwoods such as maple, oak and ash. The earlier piece such as yours in walnut tend to be much higherquality than the later examples, which were mass produced on a much larger scale by the 1890's. Today the demand for Victorian furniture has softened due to changing tastes of collectors and the sheer number of pieces on the market. Speculation is that this is a result of the "Downsizing" of the "Baby Boom" generation that is now heading for retirement. In the current market comparable pieces sell in the $150.00- $200.00 range.

I’ve not found the same model as yours. There are several others on eBay selling in the $40 range https://www.ebay.com/sch/180957/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=christopher+d+eyeg... I don’t think there’d be much of a market for them unless they are like new old stock condition.