Although they tend now to be all called lace makers lamps I think that they must have been widely used by anyone who needed extra light for reading, writing etc before the days of oil or electric light
Quite so. In my stamp collection, I have a Slovenian one with a picture of a stand, with glass globes suspended from it (3 are visible) and (presumably) a light-source in the centre. I keep it with my "lace tools" stamps, even though it's described as "shoemaking light". Kleinhout (from whom I got the series - 3 stamps, of which only that one is somewhat relevant) did warn me that it was not a *lacemaker's* lamp, but, since it's close enough in concept...
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Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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