Jim Van Es’s Antique Lamps
Jim Van Es is a walking library of lamp information. He’s collected and studied lamps for more than 40 years, and he can take them apart and put them back together, which he does at his shop in Virginia, The Wooden Show. He’s also a Worthologist, one of WorthPoint’s experts. In this video he pulls out an Aladdin lamp, an old Cornelius & Baker and even and old whale oil lamp.
Different kinds of antique oil lamps; tips on types of fuel, shapes, andmore in this free diy collectors video from an antiques dealer collection expert. Expert: Sue Shea Contact: www.SheaAntique.com Bio: Sue Shea has been dealing in antiques since 1979, and has her own shop, Shea Antiques, located in Shelburne Falls, MA. Her passion is early American 18th & 19th century antique country furnishings. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
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whale oil explosive? The lamp you pick up and call a whale oil lamp has a camphene/burning-fluid burner, hence the longer wick tubes and the necessity of them being angled away from each other to prevent heat from the flame allowing the lamps to overheat, simple whale oil burners are usually one or two tubes, just to say poking out of the top of the collar, the tubes extending somewhat into the fount to help warm and thin the fuel so it wicks better.
Nice video, keep it up!
an Argand lamp such as a Solar will be significantly brighter than a kerosene lamp with a flat wick for example or equivalent to say a Kerosene lamp with a Kosmos burner, also Argand burner were designed to burn cleanly and without smoke or odour most lamps smell a bit when they are extinguished due to the heat of the burner still producing the vapour until it cools but not during use.
Hi I think the Solar lamp is stunning and would prefer that over the Aladdin any day, I don’t think you can compare the light of an luminous flame vegetable/lard oil lamp with a lamp that uses a mantle and mention the fuel difference being the reason, …
Well thank you–I shot and produced that video. So you just made my week! mary
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Give me a call at the shop 3047251673 and we will try to help
I always have trouble getting my alladin lamp wick trimmed even so that I have an even glow…and yes….I do have the little wick trimmer tool. It always seems like I am getting uneven burning and hot spots
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i collect antique bottles and maps, dont know much about oil lamps, see em all over the antique stores. Thanks for the info though, maybe next time Ill give em more attention.
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ive got 6 of them.one i inherited still had whale oil in it.one was from a music hall in the 19th centuary Ad and had the halls name on it and was used to light people to their seats.i use mine.