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...