The leg lamp in the Christmas story?

The Leg Lamp in "A Christmas Story" was a major award that Ralphie's father won after solving a puzzle about The Lone Ranger. He liked the Lamp but Ralphie's mother really hated it so much and thought it was ugly that after a few days of Ralphie's father owning the Lamp she broke it and it made Ralphie's father enraged and he accused her of being jealous of the Lamp but she finally admits she broke it on purpose saying that it was the ugliest lamp she ever saw in her life. Ralphie's father found glue and tried to fix the lamp but it wouldn't stay together and so he buried it and played the funeral son "Taps"