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![MC Oiler 006.JPG - MAPLE CITY - Nickel plated steel oiler with brass hardware, marked in embossed maple leaf logo MAPLE CITY MFG. CO. MONMOUTH, ILL U.S.A., 9 in. high to top of spout, 3 in. base dia., 4 1/2 in. spout, with hand grip and finger hole, ca. 1910 [Maple City marked items are favorites of collectors and highly sought after. Primarily known as an oiler manufacturer, the Maple City Mfg. Co. also produced carbide lamps, especially a hand lamp that looks very much like the oiler shown here. My good friend Tony Moon upon seeing this oiler described it (with slight tongue in cheek) as an oversized surveyor style oil wick lamp with a convenient hand grip and finger hole. Noting the Carbon Oil Miner oil wick lamp shown earlier in the wick lamps, there are great similarities between oilers and oil wick lamps. Perhaps the addition of a wick could create an oil wick lamp??? The story of Maple City starts with the Soap Works factory, a huge four-story building covering one city block in Monmouth, IL constructed by William Hanna in 1900. One of the businesses that located in the building was the Maple City Mfg. Co., founded in 1904 to manufacture a can oiler. In 1907, the Soap Works business was sold to Proctor & Gamble who subsequently moved the business to Cincinnati. The Maple City Mfg. Co. continued in business at the site and incorporated during that same year with Ross Hanna, William Hanna's son, as president. In 1911, the company purchased the Soap Works building and the plant was known as The Can Factory. The Maple City Mfg. Co. added carbide lamps to their product line in 1911. During the next few years, the company produced a variety of distinctive lamps both cap lamps as shown elsewhere in my carbide lamp pics and a hand lamp noted earlier. They also produced private label lamps to mine supply companies. Notable examples are the extremely rare Norleigh Diamond and Red Star lamps. The Can Factory was destroyed by fire in 1917 and was not rebuilt essentially ending the production of Maple City carbide lamps. The company moved to Peoria to make oilers and folding steel chairs but with little success declaring bankruptcy in 1920. Out of the bankruptcy came the Maple City Stamping Company who continued to manufacture oilers as well as other metal fabrication products.]](MC Oiler 006.JPG) |
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| MC Oiler 006 | MAPLE CITY - Nickel plated steel oiler with brass hardware, marked in embossed maple leaf logo MAPLE CITY MFG. CO. MONMOUTH, ILL U.S.A., 9 in. high to top of spout, 3 in. base dia., 4 1/2 in. spout, with hand grip and finger hole, ca. 1910 [Maple City marked items are favorites of collectors and highly sought after. Primarily known as an oiler manufacturer, the Maple City Mfg. Co. also produced carbide lamps, especially a hand lamp that looks very much like the oiler shown here. My good friend Tony Moon upon seeing this oiler described it (with slight tongue in cheek) as an oversized surveyor style oil wick lamp with a convenient hand grip and finger hole. Noting the Carbon Oil Miner oil wick lamp shown earlier in the wick lamps, there are great similarities between oilers and oil wick lamps. Perhaps the addition of a wick could create an oil wick lamp??? The story of Maple City starts with the Soap Works factory, a huge four-story building covering one city block in Monmouth, IL constructed by William Hanna in 1900. One of the businesses that located in the building was the Maple City Mfg. Co., founded in 1904 to manufacture a can oiler. In 1907, the Soap Works business was sold to Proctor & Gamble who subsequently moved the business to Cincinnati. The Maple City Mfg. Co. continued in business at the site and incorporated during that same year with Ross Hanna, William Hanna's son, as president. In 1911, the company purchased the Soap Works building and the plant was known as The Can Factory. The Maple City Mfg. Co. added carbide lamps to their product line in 1911. During the next few years, the company produced a variety of distinctive lamps both cap lamps as shown elsewhere in my carbide lamp pics and a hand lamp noted earlier. They also produced private label lamps to mine supply companies. Notable examples are the extremely rare Norleigh Diamond and Red Star lamps. The Can Factory was destroyed by fire in 1917 and was not rebuilt essentially ending the production of Maple City carbide lamps. The company moved to Peoria to make oilers and folding steel chairs but with little success declaring bankruptcy in 1920. Out of the bankruptcy came the Maple City Stamping Company who continued to manufacture oilers as well as other metal fabrication products.] |  Original Image |
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