Vintage Welsh Miner’s Lamp I sat down to flip

I sat down to flip through this book and an hour later found myself enveloped in Princess Diana’s story

This early 1900s edition of Rudyard Kipling’s best works contains The Jungle Book

Comes in the original dust bag

I had to talk myself out of keeping these beauties

but it holds strong and isn’t too noticeable

Vintage Welsh Miner’s Lamp I sat down to flipThis little lamp is one of my favorite finds yet, because I had no idea of its history until I brought it home with me and did some research. Before electric lamps were invented in the early 1900s, miners would use kerosene lamps like this one as a light source down in the mines. This of course was fairly dangerous, as any open flame had the possibility of igniting gases released in the mining process. This lamp in particular seems to be fairly rare,