Miners Candlesticks/Launder

Miners Candlesticks

Launder.JPG - W H LAUNDER - Length 7 in; one-piece steel stick, marked W H LAUNDER M’F’G’R on side of shaft, #29 in Wilson’s candlestick book (see article inEureka #5 pp 8-9 by Thorpe); Launder was thought to haveworked in the Bodie, CA area; ex-Dave Thorpe collection; with NM petrified wood specimen (W. H. Launder's name appears on a few crudely made candlesticks but very little is known as to who he was and where he practiced his trade. Recently, Leo Stambaugh ran across a letterhead with the W. H. Launder General Blacksmith Horseshoer label at the top with a Central City, CO location dated in the late 1890s. Perhaps Mr. Launder was an itinerant blacksmith who moved around to the mining camps of the west as many others did. See Stambaugh, Eureka #33, p 17)

Launder | W H LAUNDER - Length 7 in; one-piece steel stick, marked W H LAUNDER M’F’G’R on side of shaft, #29 in Wilson’s candlestick book (see article in Eureka #5 pp 8-9 by Thorpe); Launder was thought to have worked in the Bodie, CA area; ex-Dave Thorpe collection; with NM petrified wood specimen (W. H. Launder's name appears on a few crudely made candlesticks but very little is known as to who he was and where he practiced his trade. Recently, Leo Stambaugh ran across a letterhead with the W. H. Launder General Blacksmith Horseshoer label at the top with a Central City, CO location dated in the late 1890s. Perhaps Mr. Launder was an itinerant blacksmith who moved around to the mining camps of the west as many others did. See Stambaugh, Eureka #33, p 17)

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