SNOHOMISH — Tom Minifie is a collector who counts Americana, vintage electric fans and early advertising among his passions. But his love for lighting elicits an unusual impulse for a collector — to ...

It takes a keen eye to see the artful potential locked away in raw material -- whether it's a piece of sheet metal or the base of an old, discarded lamp. Yet once that potential is released, you may ...

It’s not trash, but it’s not exactly treasure, either. That’s pretty much the verdict appraiser Brian Thomczek gave Michael Frasier about a vintage lamp he brought in to the Michigan Design Center ...

Sometimes, a light bulb goes off, and you get the notion to sell an old Tiffany lamp. You know the kind: warmly lit, gem-colored stained glass; copper-foiled into a lampshade inspired by the wonders ...

Please help me know more about this slag table lamp. My mother purchased it in the early 1970s from an estate sale. I took a magnet to the metal and it stuck to the base bottom. The magnet did not ...

One of the neat things about 3D printing is that you can create custom parts to fit salvage to use in projects. For example, [Willyrags05] took a lamp — looks like something you might find at a resale ...

Residents of a street in Bristol are asking questions of Bristol City Council after 'three' of their vintage lamp posts were taken away and replaced by 'terrible-looking' modern ones. And some people ...