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| John D Gills Sons Star Brass LSide | JOHN D. GILL'S SONS STAR BRASS - All brass face lamp, marked on side in shield S*T*A*R* JOHN D. GILL’S SONS PHILIPSBURG, PA, double spout, 2 1/8 in. tall to lid, 1 3/4 in. base dia. (The firm of John D. Gill's Sons has an unusual name in that the sons of John Gill, John Jr. and Robert, took their father's name for the business. John Gill died in 1890 but his sons started a business as a manufacturer of mining tools sometime around 1909 in Philipsburg, PA. They produced a variety of face and driver's wick lamps in tin, brass and copper and in both sloped side and milkcan shapes. Two markings were used for their lamps. The more common marking is THE GILL LAMP shown elsewhere in the wick lamp photos. The more scarce marking of JOHN D. GILL'S SONS in a STAR shield is shown here in a sloped side model. It is thought the firm left the wick lamp business sometime in the late 1910s. See Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 16-21) |  Original Image |
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