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2. Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company - Wikipedia

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   The font (also spelled "fount") held the kerosine for the lamp. [25] The chimney was a glass tube placed around the lamp's flame that had a bulge at the base that kept drafts away from the flame and added extra illumination. [26] A lamp's shade was a glass object that surrounded the light source and diffused it. [27]

3. Argand lamp - Wikipedia

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   An Argand lamp in use in A Portrait of James Peale, done in 1822 by Charles Willson Peale Argand lamp with circular wick and glass chimney. Illustration from Les Merveilles de la science (1867–1869) by Louis Figuier. The Argand lamp is a type of oil lamp invented in 1780 by Aimé Argand.

4. Macbeth-Evans Glass Company - Wikipedia

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   A dining room furnished with shades and globes, 1912 Macbeth-Evans first introduced tableware items during the late 1920s and expanded into complete dinnerware lines in 1930. [ 4 ] The most popular color used in tableware was pink, and the glass made was thinner than other companies of the time, thus more fragile.

5. J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company - Wikipedia

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   The Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company, Novelty Glass Company, and Seneca Glass Company were started in the 1890s. [108] Sneath Glass Company and Robinson Glass Company were also started by former employees of the various Hobbs companies in the 1890s. [109]

6. Nickel Plate Glass Company - Wikipedia

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   The Nickel Plate Glass Company was a manufacturer of tableware, lamps, and bar goods. It began operations in Fostoria, Ohio , on August 8, 1888, on land donated by the townspeople. The new company was formed by men from West Virginia who were experienced in the glassmaking business, and their company was incorporated in that state in February ...

7. Pairpoint Glass - Wikipedia

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   Pairpoint candlestick, 1912 Brooklyn Museum. Pairpoint is known for three kinds of glass lampshades, originally produced from the mid-1890s through the mid-1920s: reverse painted landscape shades (where the glass is hand painted on the inside surface so colors appear softly through the glass), blown out reverse painted shades, and ribbed reverse painted shades, mostly with floral designs and ...