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Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A brass camphene lamp. The saucer base holds an elaborately molded columnar stand which leads to a reservoir with a cup shaped bottom and a broad shouldered top portion. The wick holders are splayed as is typical of ac camphene lamp.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A trapezoidal wooden base holds a glass reservoir. The glass reservoir has a square peg at its base to hold it into the wood. The reservoir is globular and has a threaded tin wick fixture. The wicks are splayed as is typical of a camphene lamp and there are wick covers attached by chains.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An elaborately decorated small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Lamp, Kerosene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This lamp has a tall cylindrical reservoir which is white glass, handpainted with autumn colored leaves. There is a wheel handle for moving the wick upwards. The base of the lamp is heavy cast iron sporting geometric sunburst, triangular and heartshaped friezes.
Filler, Lamp
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tall cylindrical copper pot with a long thin spout and lid.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A copper/brass lamp made of several parts. A saucer base has a ring for hanging it up and a small circular handle. On top of the saucer is a tall cylindrical post on which a canting (tilting) reservoir is mounted. There is a single wick holder at the top.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tin cylindrical lamp with a single wick channel in the center of the top of the lamp. At the bottom of the lamp is a triangular projection, probably for fastening it to a wall or wooden structure.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A copper/brass lamp made of several parts. A saucer base has a ring for hanging it up and a small circular handle. On top of the saucer is a tall cylindrical post on which a canting (tilting) reservoir is mounted. There is a single wick holder at the top.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This lamp has a double wick fixture made of tin, with the characteristically splayed camphene wick holders. It even holds its own wick covers to keep fuel from evaporating. The fixture is fitted onto a pressed glass bulbous reservoir which ends in a square peg. The peg would have fit into a wooden base.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small glass lamp, bell-shaped, which has a small semicircular glass handle. The pewter cap and wick fixture is fastened to the top of the glass. This lamp which is very similar to 68.1.1150, is different because it has the very distinctive camphene outsplayed pointed wicks.
Lamp, Camphene;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small camphene/kerosene lamp made out of brass. A saucer holds a small cylinder on top of which is a globular reservoir with a pronounced shoulder. This leads to a single wick channel. A conical cap is attached by means of a hinge. There is a circular carrying handle.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A elaborately decorated small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A pewter lamp with a circular saucer shaped base, a bulbous reservoir and a semicircular handle. The double wick holders are pointed away from one another, characteristic of the camphene lamp.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A wooden base holds a pressed glass reservoir which has a square peg at the base to hold it into the wood. The glass is square with rounded shoulders and leads to a narrow mouth which has a threaded tin wick fixture. The wicks channels are splayed as is typical of a camphene lamp and there are wick covers attached by chains.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A cylindrical glass jar with a lid which transforms it into a lamp. The lid has two broad wick holders protruding from one side. A heavy C shaped cover with chain for the wick holders is attached and indicates that this is probably a camphene lamp.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A red "japanned" lamp with a saucer base, a circular handle, a tall cone shaped reservoir body and two splayed wick channels as is typical of a camphene lamp.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small glass lamp, bell-shaped, which has a small semicircular glass handle. The pewter cap and wick fixture is fastened to the top of the glass. This lamp has a single wick.
Lamp, Fuel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A heavy cast iron lamp. It is cylindrical with a two wick holes on the top on a slotted panel which includes a knob to move aside that panel for filling. The lamp is on a long iron handle which moves back and forth.
Lighter, Cigar
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A small lamp in the shape of an ancient lamp, like the one like that which belonged to the legendary Aladdin. It has a single wick opening. This is, in fact a cigar lighter.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A pewter lamp with a circular saucer shaped base, a bulbous reservoir and a semicircular handle. The double wick holders are pointed away from one another, characteristic of the camphene lamp.
Filler, Lamp
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tall cylindrical copper pot with a long thin spout and lid.
Lamp, Camphene;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tin lamp with a conical base upon which is mounted a larger conical reservoir. The single wick opening which comes from the top of the lamp has a chained conical cover. There is a whole in the back of the lamp to fill it, and a small handle there as well.
Lamp, Camphene
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Small camphene/kerosene lamp made out of tin. A saucer holds a small cylinder on top of which is a globular reservoir with a pronounced shoulder. This leads to a single wick channel. A conical cap is attached by means of a hinge. There is a circular carrying handle.
Lamp, Camphene;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A tin lamp formed in a broad, short cylinder. Three upright cylindrical wick holders are mounted on top of the cylinder well separated from one another, indicating this is probably a camphene lamp.

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