This lighting fixture business was started in 1950 after several years of cabinet repair shop work for a high class antique shop. There a knowledge of and a feeling for good quality antiques was acquired. The feeling for finishes and shapes and construction methods of the old-time craftsman are followed and practiced in producing all of our lights. We send them out without apologies or excuses to anyone for the design or finish or the craftsmanship necessary to make a good fixture. Fifty years ago we made candelabras which sold as old. We don't make fakes anymore but we are still fakers . . . . as no electrified fixture can be very old, electricity wasn't in use when our designs were prevalent. Over a long period of time we have made the fixtures shown in this catalog plus nearly all of the sconces and chandeliers shown in several of the reference books on early American lights. We can nearly always adapt the old to the new or electric by concealing the electric wire in rolled edges or tubing or hollow hooks. No modern bolts or fasteners show in any of our fixtures. As in old fixtures all joined parts show soldered joints.

A list of restorations, museums and collections for which our fixtures have been made is available upon request.

All lighting fixtures handcrafted to the drip on the tapered candle. All metal parts are bent and crimped with simple hand tools. Made in this manner,All lighting fixtures handcrafted to the drip on the tapered candle. All metal parts are bent and crimped with simple hand tools. Made in this manner, no matter how well done, they always have the had made look. The wooden center pieces are hand turned. The bobeches can be spun as shown in #15 or hand crimped as shown in most fixtures.

They are complete and ready to fasten to the electrical outlet. The chandeliers and sconces are made with candelabra sockets unless otherwise specified.

The colors shown below are hand painted by brush from cans of our own shop mixed paints. For best results look at them in bright outdoor light. (By a window is ok.) Fixtures are painted in old paint effect or to your color sample. Any metal fixture can be from distressed tin, with remnants of paint, pewter coated, painted. Copper lanterns can be oxidized or painted.

These colors are approximate. An actual paint strip is available upon request.