Ship Lanterns and Lamps
Wind Power: How the 19th-Century's Greatest Shipbuilder Opened the Pacific
By Ben Marks — In 1849, when word reached Ohio that gold had been discovered the year before in California, there was little to keep a young ship captain named Matthew Turner (1825-1909) close to the family homestead on the shores of Lake Erie. Eight years earlier, when Turner was just 16, his 36-year-old mother was taken by illness; in 1849, when Turner was a 24-year-old newlywed, his bride died, too. And so, in the winter of 1850, Turner bid adieu to his father, brother, and sisters and caught a...
Antique Oil Lamps and Chimneys
By Maribeth Keane — My grandparents were antique collectors all their lives, their whole house was furnished in antiques. They had a lot of oil lamps and I suppose that’s where I got my first interest. I’ve always had more of an interest in the glass lampshades than the lamps but it kind of just evolved into lamp collecting instead of glass, and not pattern glass per say, just colored glass. I started out collecting miniature lamps and built up a collection of maybe forty, nothing high end, just mid range...