Illustrated catalogue of lamps, gas fixtures, &c
An 1856 trade catalogue issued in New York by Starr, Fellows & Co, offering lamps and gas fixtures to retail buyers and dealers. Its pages show engraved wall brackets, ornamented gas fixtures, and pedestal oil lamps with etched glass shades, each drawn in plain line with numbered entries and dimension marks. A designer could take from them the scrolled arm forms, acanthus-leaf ornament, and the tiered baluster stems of mid-nineteenth-century lighting.
