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USLHS Light House keeper's lamp oil can 1935 Rare
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Galvanized steel or tin, lead soldered seams stamped with USLHS property no. 117 and date 5-8 1935. Approximately 18" tall with an 11.5" diameter. Also embossed with Mfg. "S G Adams Metalware Co. St. Louis" see /Press/articles.cfm?article=16 for complete article excerpted below. Story ran on: April 8, 2001 Portsmouth Sunday Herald Author: Nancy Cicco Preservationist hold dear these treasures that dot our coastline .... From then on, lighthouse keepers and many of their families lived in homes next to the beacons. Caring for a given lighthouse was a familial art, passed down through generations. Many times, the widows of male lighthouse keepers would be appointed to the job after their husbands died. "In those days, women weren't allowed to vote, but they were appointed by the president of the United States," Harrison said. Sensing the country could not avoid involvement in World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt merged the U.S. Lighthouse Service into the U.S. Coast Guard in 1939. The merger automatically increased the Coast Guard's ranks, but many lightkeepers saw the move as a hostile takeover. "T was a lot of animosity," Harrison said. "For years afterward, (many lightkeepers) refused to wear the Coast Guard uniform." More than that, some lightkeepers started hoarding anything with the U.S. Lighthouse Service insignia. When FDR dissolved the agency, he ordered all artifacts marked U.S.L.H.S. destroyed. Some lighthouse families would have none of it and hid away U.S.L.H.S. oil cans , china, even toilet paper holders, Harrison said. He called those artifacts "extremely rare and valuable," and one of the reasons he launched the Lighthouse Depot Museum. 01/16/06: I received and email from the Coast Guard Headquarters historian in D.C. pointing me to a website that explains a little more about this item. it is /antiques/antiques.html w an identical can is shown. E-bayers, please do not ask me to remove this item from auction so you can make an offer. I've received far too many of these requests. Any further requests I get, I will post to the site and note it in your feedback. Just bid fairly and let the market decide.
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