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    Posted 12 years ago

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    Nichols.jw
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    I posted this three days ago prior to removing the paint. There are no manufacturer markings that I can find. There are threads on the top for possibly a globe. The base is made of porceline with the main lamp being copper. I think this is to elaborate to be a smudge pot plus most smudge pots I've seen don't have an adjustment for the wick. If anything, I'll put this on my patio table for decoration. Not bad for a $1 at the yard sale.

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    1. Esther110 Esther110, 12 years ago
      Looks like an oil lamp. It's missing the glass flame protector, or hurricane lamp
    2. Kollector Kollector, 9 years ago
      It is an alcohol lamp used in early scientific labs as a source of heat for heating beakers, test tubes, glassware, or a blowpipe to produce a torch like hot flame that produced no soot, before the advent of the Bunsen burner . Probably dates back to 1800's

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