Home contractors today say that the item that most people have trouble selecting for a new home is the lighting! Why! There are so many choices. There weren't that many choices back in pioneer days. It was candels, or some form of gas lantern.
What you see in the photo is a gas lantern used in the early days of the South. Quite often these fixtures were ordered from catalogs from England. They would be shipped to a port of entry in America and hauled to the point of destination. That was also true of other furnishings and fixtures to. The light from these lanters was very soft, romantic, and gave off a warm glow.
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