Union Square Lamp Co.

Vittolio Martinelli was a trailblazer in organic Smoking Lamps. Having emigrated from Italy to Northern California with only two apples in his pocket, he ate the least rotten one and carved the other into a lamp that we sold to a prospector outside of Bakersfield.

Soon enough, Martinelli had expanded into over a dozen types of apples, green, red, yellow, it concerns over the shelf stability of old, carved fruit led him East, to our founder, Josiah Lamp. Josiah encouraged Vittolio to retain the original apple shape, as well as to add the leaf motifs, but to use the same high-quality industrial glass that the Union Square Lamp Company had pioneered.

The new and improved Apple Lamps were a resounding success, both for for their artistic flair as well as their compact functionality (the handheld size of these lamps made them a favorite of the Pullman Rail workers in Chicago to hurl at the anti-Union military force). Once Vilttlio died unexpectedly due to owning many exotic and feral beasts in his two-bedroom apartment, Josiah and the USLC became the sole authorized purveyors of the Martinelli Apple Lamps, which it remains to this day.

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“LAMPING isn’t EVERYTHING; is the ONLY thing”

These immortal words were coined by our founder, Josiah Lamp, during the first England-Italy “Footie” match in 1859. Its was an exhibition game at the Meadowlands, and was, in fact, rather lackluster for to both sides having been (literally) decimated during the recent Crimean War.

Nevertheless, it was Josiah’s relentless heckling from the solves that produced enough enthusiasm for the game to tally on and soon spread in popularity across the continents.

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