Posted 8 years ago
Retiredvet…
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Well I happened to be selling some personal items to donate to another veteran who is trying to move , and look and behold I hear an auction next door. So I walked in and before I knew it is bought three boxs of mystery laterns. Well all of it came from an estate. This guy had some really old stuff. This one latern shows M.M. Buck Co. ST.LOUIS MO. but when I went on thier website that had them I couldn't find that one. Alas. Between that and the searching forever notta. Does anyone know if this is a railroad one or what it is? May make a great sale item to help that veteran. . I do have other pictures as well. Many thanks to everyone.
This has the "cylindrical" wick ?
I just checked it is a cylindrical" wick
I'm trying to figure out what style holder would go on this for the globe. It would have to be somewhat springy to keep the glass from breaking. These are an interest of mine but not my expertise. Just seems that I've seen that large cylindrical top before & can't remember if it had a globe support. We have people on CW that know them & will help. I'm waiting too. Oh ! Welcome to CW.
I want to thank you, I have no idea either. I stopped by looking at different styles as well like Aladdin lamps but it wouldn't explain the wick Turner saying M.M. Buck & CO. St. Louis MO. On it. It's be a hard pill to swallow if it was lol. Even then I can't find one even like it either. It's been fun tonight looking through the 3 boxs of Laterns many are very old including the bullseye shade one. Ahhh well my mystery I guess . But thanks again for the kind welcome. I'll be posting some other stuff with it have no idea what it is help lol...
Oil lamps have been around a long time & there have been many, many designs. I bounced around O/L a bit on this & see the research problem ! Maybe they will come out with Cliffsnotes on them ! Let me know what you find out if not on this poste.
Ty I will sent a few emails out as well
Just clicked on M.M. Buck & found lots of outside type lantern, but no match. This is an inside lamp & not a lantern. Bonne chance !!
I got this email back and also a website. It kinda makes since.
One of the pictures kinda looks like it minus the bottom???
http://www.ramshornstudio.com/center_drafts.htm
Hi What you have is a central draft lamp base. I do not know if the center tube has been
cut off as it looks jagged in the picture when you look straight down into it. The M M Buck
& Co was a St Louis company in the 1890's but were really rail road company and did a
lot of lantern lamps along with other engineering and construction of rail road material.
In my literature I do not have any thing on the lamp but do on lanterns. It is very odd that
the base sets down with out any way of air to enter into the base as it has holes inside the
base. The holes half way up makes me think that it may have been a hanging lamp with
those holes being the base and someone added the base to raise it up and make it a
table lamp. There maybe a burner from another companies lamp that would fit if the
top is not messed up to bad. Lamps were like early horseless carriages where they would
buy parts from a parts house and add their name and make cars There were a zillion
companies making central draft lamps from the middle 1880's until 1940's and most
of the starting parts came from P&A (Plume and Atwood) in Connecticut during the hay day
of the central draft lighting era. Sorry I am not much help at this point.
thanks John
I had never heard of the M M Buck co. In St. Louis ,MO. From the looks of the air vent stem, it may have been a patented lamp. Surely the historical Archives of St. Louis would have a mention of this company. Like someone said, there were hundreds of oil lamp companies and individuals who patented lamps in this era which I estimate would be circa 1890-1920. Would have been nice and useful to have seen it with the original burner and gallery. Bob
I feed "MM Buck" into Bing & it comes up.
http://www.southwestspiritantiques.com/dynapage/IP707.htm