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Federal 1700-1810: This is the style of most of our founding fathers' architecture, including many early public buildings, Colonial style homes and most plantations, and the style has undergone many revivals right up to modern home building. The original lighting consisted of real candle fixtures, candle chandeliers, candelabras, candle lanterns, various candle hurricane lamps and candlesticks, and toward 1800, oil lamps and whale oil lamps. Many of the fixtures were made of tin or iron, sometimes combined with wood, and looked primitive, while others were crafted in pewter, brass and silver, and looked elegant. These lights were hand made and led to the typical "Colonial Style" light fixture that we see so much of today, typified by "S" curved arms and a central hanging oversized ball shape. Tip: There's been so much reproduction of Colonial fixtures, that unless you can find evidence of hand crafting and definite wax residue, you're probably dealing with a repro even though it still may be very old (but not older than 1880 if it was originally made for electric light bulbs). 
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