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VL Lamp II RSide | VL LAMP II - Rare tin lamp with two tin discs at the end of the spout, discs are attached to a copper strip running down the spout and across the base to heat sunshine fuel, marked on lid SMOKELESS V. L. LAMP + PAT. SEPT. 14, 09 – NOV. 30, 09,’ 2 1/4 in. high to lid, the wick is split at spout tip on either side of tin discs making replacement of the wick nearly impossible, patented by John Van Liew of Houghton, MI, the V. L. Lamp is one of the last patented oil wick lamps with a Mar. 17, 1914 date on the third patent (see Moon, Mining Artifact Collector #17, pp 16-18) | Original Image |
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