Fine, Handcrafted Pewter in the Great American Tradition
Two pieces of Gibson Pewter will be featured in the June issue of Early American Life magazine (it should be available by mid-April).
The Tavern Lamp and Gleason Chamberstick will be featured in an article about antique & reproduction portable lighting devices and lamps with handles.
Height: 4″
Price: $175
Product code: OL4
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The Tavern Lamp is a reproduction of a piece made in New York City in the 1840′s by the pewter lamp making firm of Capen & Molineux. They made many different styles of oil and camphene lamps. Some surviving examples are even equipped with lard oil burners.
Our lamp has the single, taller, camphene burner and a wonderful scroll handle. This was a portable lamp that would have been used in many ways, including lighting the way to one’s bed chamber after dark. The single burner produces a soft, mellow light. All lamps come with instruction and a free bottle of lamp oil.
Height: 8.5″
Price: $495
Stevens Metal Award winner 2003
Product code: OL3
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The Gleason Bullseye Whale Oil Lamp is a great lighting device. The original was patented in the 1830s by Roswell Gleason, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, as a work light. These lamps are also referred to as lacemakers’ lamps.
The glass lenses magnify the light of the flame and the shade above the lens which is slightly canted, focuses the light for in close hand work, or reading. Gleason made a single lens lamp, as well as a double lens lamp so that two people could share the light source.
I won the Stevens Metal Award at the 2003 Annual Juried Exhibit of The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen with this reproduction. Original examples of this lamp are hard to find, especially with the lenses intact. All oil lamps come with instructions and a free bottle of lamp oil.
Height: 8.5″
Price: $595
Stevens Metal Award winner 2003
Product code: OL2
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The Gleason Bullseye Whale Oil Lamp is a great lighting device. The original was patented in the 1830s by Roswell Gleason, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, as a work light. These lamps are also referred to as lacemakers’ lamps.
The glass lenses magnify the light of the flame and the shade above the lens which is slightly canted, focuses the light for in close hand work, or reading. Gleason made a single lens lamp, as well as a double lens lamp so that two people could share the light source.
I won the Stevens Metal Award at the 2003 Annual Juried Exhibit of The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen with this reproduction. Original examples of this lamp are hard to find, especially with the lenses intact. All oil lamps come with instructions and a free bottle of lamp oil.
Height: 8.5″
Price: $250
Product code:OL1
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The Dunham Standing Lamp is a beautiful piece. It is a reproduction of a 19th century whale oil lamp by Rufus Dunham, Westbrook, Maine, circa 1830s. These kinds of lamps were often used for lighting a table top, a mantel, or a candle stand.
All of our oil lamps work and produce the soft light of a by gone era. Each lamp comes with instructions and a free bottle of lamp oil.
Available for sale.
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