Antique oil lamp identification can be a bit tricky, considering there are many reproduction antique lamps on the market. The thing is, a genuine antique oil lamp can sometimes be quite valuable, so ...

Our expert breaks down the best vintage-style hurricane and oil lamps for both form and function through rainy days and dark nights. Q: We just went through eight long days without power, and the ...

Many 18th-century lamps used oil to produce light. If whale oil was not available, the lamps could use olive oil. The oil was kept in a reservoir, usually metal, that had three or four burners with ...

Few people stayed up at night in the years before 1800 because there were so few sources of light. An open fire, a candle or a rush dipped in oil could be lit. Then whale-oil lamps became popular.

Italian researchers have discovered the pottery center where the oil lamps that lighted the ancient Roman Empire were made. Evidence of the pottery workshops emerged in Modena, in central-northern ...

At age 22, in 1840, Robert Edwin Dietz bought a small lamp and oil shop in Brooklyn, NY. Robert, with his brother William, called the company Dietz, Brother and Company. One of their first products ...

When you’re prepping for disaster or stocking your backwoods camp, you always need to have sufficient lighting sources on your gear list. Light sticks, candles and flashlights are good, but what about ...