New Albany collector sees value in old lamps

Bill Lohmeyer drove and drove and drove some more to a 14-hour auction of old lamps in Illinois. Then he drove and drove and drove some more back to New Albany, without the lamp he most wanted. Lohmeyer bowed finally from the bidding at $1,300, twice the limit he had promised himself. Determined to take the rare prize, the winner went $25 higher. Such is love, war and big-time collecting. "And that's not the first time that's happened," Lohmeyer said. "(But) I haven't let many things get by me."