Let there be light

                        
We all know about The Coal Miner’s Daughter - but I can say I was the son of a coal miner. In the 1930s, my dad worked in the coal mines in Adrian and Shinnston, W.Va. He dressed and washed up in the wash house and his miner’s hat and carbide light was filled up and ready for next day’s work.
The cap and light pictured is very similar to the one I can remember hanging in our wash house. The pictured light and hat came from a Baltic auction and it cost me $75.
Recent auction prices: Two pink depression plates, $17.50; pink depression cracker jar, $17.50; Westmoreland hen on nest, $12.50; case of arrowheads, $60; harmonica, $7.50; album of name cards, $12.50; Pabst beer sign, $17.50; large Mahlon Shrock farm print, $70; monkey wrench and hand saw, $3; advertising clock, $10; large coffee grinder, $45; Goshen cream top milk bottle, $22.50; small ox yoke, $50.
1970 Sugarcreek Equity calendar, $2; deer painting on slate, $7; barn lantern, $12.50; mustard wood bucket, $25; Fenton fairy lamp, $10; store jar, $7.50; egg scale, $25; candle stick telephone, $20; small cast iron cat, $12.50.
Smith Dairy milk box, $10; granite rolling pin, $12.50; curling iron, $10; child’s scooter trike, $7.50; wood wagon, $30; repro. Coke tray, $4; paper weight, $6; min. repro. sad iron, $4.
Happy hunting, Brooks.


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