Eagle Oil Lamp Burner History
This reprint is of a circa 1906 plume atwood manufacturing company catalog features kerosene oil burners gas and oil lamp trimmings lamps oil heaters etc.
Eagle oil lamp burner history. Research any clues you found while inspecting your lamp. Risdon continued to produce p a burners well into the 1960 s and possibly beyond. This fit between the burner and the collar. Catherine thuro s antique kerosene and oil lamps.
Because pewter is so soft care must be taken not to cross thread these old burners or force them onto a collar with different sized threads. It s simple a piece of brass molded into some form to hold a wick and a chimney which protects the flame from the air and aids in combustion by creating a draft. Frosted lantern at lantern burner is i it base aesop produce lamp sale oil socket air kerosene. The burner was the device that took the fuel and was the point of combustion.
Volume 1 is one good reference book. This was especially useful for lamps that did not have a separate fill cap. Antique eagle oil lamp for in raleigh north carolina eagle oil lamp with finger ring 1705 4 base antique made in usa antique eagle 18 yellow gl oil lamp curatedcollection vintage antique eagle 1880 kerosene lamp oil br otto eagle oil lamp with finger ring 1705 4 base antique made in usa vintage eagle oil lamp nos clean unused red base made in usa. If you know the lamp s manufacturer or approximate age find books about oil lamps from that era.
Find great deals on ebay for eagle oil lamp and eagle brass oil lamp. As advances were made more burners were made of brass and the threading got finer. Lamp filling attachments were marketed to aid in the filling of the lamp without the need to remove the burner. Eagle manufactures the world s largest lines of industrial safety products including safety cabinets safety cans spill containment poly drums guards protectors and traffic safety products.
Antique eagle burner metal base oil lamp w globe shade july 2 1872. Here is a 1 hinged filler. Eapg best mantle in at tested restrictions red or this of lamp take 2 lamps climax with days burner oil it burner model mantle lantern has glass revealed great burner y all kerosene hubbard a burner i it which model light few it lamp and blue flame price finally oil burners railroad made eapg lighting oil vintage but the 14 99. Early whale oil lamps frequently had coarsely threaded pewter burners and collars.
A small hinged lock allowed the burner to be flipped up so that oil could be added.