Antique Miller Kerosene Lamp Original Green Cased Shade

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Antique Miller Kerosene Lamp Original Green Cased Shade Antique Miller Kerosene Oil Lamp with the Original Green Cased Glass Shade. I believe the correct style for these lamps is kerosene rather than oil but I suppose either would suffice. This lamp has been electrified and has a fine cord and socket ready to use immediately as a wonderful old table lamp. All the original parts are included - check my photos. It comes with the old fine glass chimney and the magnificent green cased glass shade with ribbed pattern. Measures about 21" high to the top of the chimney, the shade is 10" wide and 6" high, the base is 6 3/8" wide. Marked E Miller as shown - guaranteed a genuine old Miller lamp. It was electrified professionally and works perfectly. The glass shade has no cracks or chips - the bottom edge has normal roughness from time of manufacuture, you will never find one nicer. Edward Miller and Company of Connecticut was one of the largest manufacturers of both round and flat wick burners in the United States of America. The most common lamp size the company produced for domestic lighting was the Miller No.2 which had a one and a half inch diameter round wick. This unit gave out a reputed 60 candlepower of light. Edward Miller & Company, U.S.A. Edward Miller commenced business in Meriden, Connecticut in the 1840's making and selling camphene and burning fluid burners. By the 1860's, Edward Miller had become an effective manufacturer and marketer in the kerosene lamp business. In 1845 Edward Miller took over the business of Horatio N. Howard which was then making screws, candle holders, candle stick springs, as well as lamps that burned whale oil and a variety of burning fluids. He faced a number of initial obstacles: poor facilities, lack of raw materials and primitive manufacturing methods. Miller overcame these challenges and eventually moved into better quarters, and introduced steam power into the plant which increased production. Disaster struck in 1857 when fire destroyed the shop, but it was quickly rebuilt and business continued to expand and prosper. When oil was discovered in 1859, kerosene became a safe and affordable lamp fuel. Miller was quick to seize the initiative seeing the need for burners for the new fuel. In 1866, Miller formed a joint stock company and reorganized under the name of Edward Miller & Co (E M & Co). The manufacturing capacity was immediately increased and in 1868, Miller constructed a brass rolling mill to keep up with his company's demand for brass and to ensure a more consistent quality of product than he could count on from his suppliers. It became a major division of the corporation. Starting around 1884 through 1892, Edward Miller & Company manufactured the "ROCHESTER" line of lamps for The Rochester Lamp Company which explains their close similarity with his own ‘Miller’ lamps. Edward Miller produced, according to the catalogue, 2000 designs of kerosene lamps, and in every manner – table lamps, hanging store lamps, hanging library lamps, hall lamps, bracket lamps, night lamps, and more. After 1892 Miller lost the contract to manufacture the lamps for The Rochester Lamp Company , whose lamps were then branded "New Rochester" to distinguish them from the former. Edward Miller then used his knowledge and experience and went into direct competition with the Rochester lamp. Recognising the benefits of the central draught lamp, Miller developed the range of central draught lamps that today are known simply by his name and developed the brand in so many styles that he accommodated all customers both in taste and price. Edward Miller's first lamp was branded 'The Juno Lamp' and has a wick raiser that closely resembles that of the Rochester. Miller first posted patents for his own wick raising devise in June 1892 which he branded 'The Miller Lamp' and constantly improved on the design of both the wick raising device and burner. It seems at the same time he modified his earlier Juno lamp, simplifying the raiser and ... read more

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