AboutStuart Driver Expertise KEROSENE/OIL LAMPS, PARTICULARLY THOSE MADE BY
EDWARD MILLER & CO. (E.M. & Co.) - U.S.A.
Website: www.edwardmillerkeroseneoillamps.com
Experience Experience in collecting and restoring of this brand of lamp, and kerosene or oil lamps for 20 years. My knowledge and expertise is widely recognised and due to the lack of informtion about this sort after lamp on the internet I have created a website dedicated to the central draught lamps of Edward Miller and Co. and it is becoming an information source for this brand of lamp.
I am a member of the Lamplighters Guild of Australia
I have written a number of articles about Miller Lamps for various publications including Antique magazines.
Education/Credentials - BaPS(ccs)
Awards and Honors - N.M.,NSWPSM.
Past/Present Clients - I assist an internationally based cliental and supply lamp parts internationally.
I was given this lamp by my mother who got it from her mother. The lamp still works with oil. It is 31 inches high. The lamp has no marks to identify the maker. I estimate the age of the lamp to be at least 80 years old. Can you tell me anything about the origins of this lamp?
Answer Hi Susan,
Your lamps is a late victorian/ early edwardian (c. 1898 - c1910) brass central draft 'column' lamp of American origin. From the photograph I cannot ascertain exactly which brand it might be but confirm that it is not made by Edward Miller. It has some charteristics of later 'New Rochester' lamps but typically these were embossed so (ie 'New Rochester) around the shoulder of the fount. It also appears likely that the shade is a more recent replacement.
A nice lamp well worth caring for.
Please do not hesitiate in contacting me if you have any further questions about the lamp.
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