Posted 8 years ago
fortapache
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Back from the days before electric light bulbs there were oil lamps. Up here they are still used as the electricity goes out often.
This one has an Eagle burner. The lamp has an amber base with a clear fuel section. Most likely it is about 100 years old although it could be from the 1920s or 30s.
I had been using the smokeless oil in it which tends to make about as much light as a dull match. Put the good smoke filled stuff in it and it made the light for the last photo.
Wonderful rooms Fort...like stepping back in time :)
A work of art in its own right.
Thank you very much miklv85.
And thank you very much NevadaBlades.
Thank you very much Thomas. My cats break a globe now and then.
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Thank you AnnaB.
CLASSIC -- I still have about 3 or 4 here myself ...from the Farm
Thank you very much antiquerose. I only have 2 plus some lanterns.
Pretty sure that Eagle is a 1950s-1960s line.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-VXzxH_mn4hw/VaLHnZGMrvI/AAAAAAAAO_w/2DcWmtQS6Ks/w769-h577-no/Paintings%2Band%2Bkerosene%2Blamps%2B017.JPG
All but 2 of the above are 1940s on. And one is not the big pretty golden one, which is also Eagle and dated to the 1950s. The one next to it is 1930s. The little tiny thing is a folk art kerosene lamp made of an inkwell and broken 1940s creamer bottle's top, along with the wick holder, by yours truly-- yes, it works.
I also use oil lamps.
Thank you very much SpiritBear. I have been looking for a site with info on the oil lamp manufacturers but have had no luck.
On the adjustment knob, is there a P. & A. anywhere on it?
Yes there is SpiritBear. I have another Eagle lamp to research. I'll try and match it up with one online.
P & A was probably the biggest lamp company back in the '50s. They owned numerous plants. Their records are not complete, though.
A break through. This one was made in Thomaston which means 1955 as they moved there that year and the plant destroyed in a flood later that year. The other is a Danbury which puts it at late 50s through the 60s.
http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_p&a.htm
A handy site for the Plume and Atwood Co.
My big honey-amber one also was.
A few years ago I also used that site. Can't recall much. Thanks for posting it.
You are welcome SpiritBear. I need to revise my description.
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