When you enter Olde Lamps and Thangs in Boydton, Virginia, Boo the dog greets you in the front room, his tail wagging. The store owner, Bill Thompson, can usually be found in the back room restoring one of the 3,000 lamps he has collected over the last 40 years.

Over 2,000 of his lamps date back to the Civil War. Aladdin lamps, Depression Lamps, Gone with the Wind lamps, floor lamps, and hanging lamps are just a few types of lamps you will find at Olde Lamps and Thangs.

Among his fine collection of glassware, you will find Fire King, Roseville, Iris and Herringbone, Hull, McCoy, Nippon, and Noritake. Grisold, Wagner, and Magnalite kitchenware also adorn his shelves. Cookie jars, glass bottles, farm items, crocks, jewelry, tobacco items, framed artwork, old signs and other advertisement items, Occipied Japan, and German Hummels are also displayed throughout the store.