The International Guild of Lamp Researchers

Welcome

We are a public forum for liquid-fueled lighting research
Do you have an oil, kerosene or gas type lighting question?
We may able to provide an answer.

Our Main Pages

Question & Answer is a live forum area to ask fuel lighting questions. This is the center of activity on the site. If you have a new question please post it there.
By directly searching the Q & A page Archives they can give an answer to many questions. The vast information from over 6000 past questions is maintained and searchable.
If interested in viewing all the past questions just scroll to the bottom of the page to start your reading.
Lamp Clubs provides direct links to the websites of officially organized lighting study groups. Several publish informative newsletters.
Library with subpages, contains references, patents, research articles and general reading for online viewing.

References include these and more:
Lamp Dictionary - Helpful, when you're not really sure what words to use when discribing what you have.

German Lamp Terms in English - Many terms are in German, easy translations listed.

US Lighting Patent Project - has over 14,000 patents in a searchable database, with a direct link to the US Patent Office documents.

Light International - a digital collection of all issues of the "official journal" of the Guild which were published 1998-2003
Links takes you to the websites of individual lamp and lantern collectors or researchers who share their personal knowledge.
Publications lists currently available fuel lighting related books and their sources.
Repairs-Restorations is a large resource aid to collectors all over the world. The listings give direct links to many sources for restoration, supplies, and parts.
About Us explains who we are, how to contact us, and why we bring you this website.

Donations to the Guild operating fund are welcome at any time. Your donations cover the cost of web hosting this site. They don't need to be large contributions, as several ten or twenty dollar gifts will keep us on the Internet. We hope that as you find the site of use you may help us keep it online. Thank-you for your support.
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We are grateful to the following for their contributions of time, knowledge and donations. Without everyone's help and support, very little of what the Guild has become would have been possible. We can't say THANK YOU enough. (diplomatically, in alphabetical order)

Norm Allen, Art Bailey, Paul Baumgartner, Paul Benkover, Terence Bertele, Bob Berland, Heinz Baumann, Christer Carlsson, Conny Carlsson, Chuck Chiarra, Robert Craig, Jessica Christian, Jim Christner, David Coney, Marie-Eve Cote, Bill Courter, Joe Cutrona, Don Daniels, Ken Dede, Richard Dudley, Julia Dolan, Mike Dolan, Dan Edminster, Jeff Edminster, John Eggert, Jeff Emig, Kenneth England, Doug Finch, Mark Gillan, Andy Graham-Cumming, Dwayne Hanson, Chuck Hayes, Ted Hinsdale, Historic Lighting Club (UK), Larry Hollenberg, Bill Hope, Harrison Howeth, Iain Hunt, Hedley Ihle, Geoff Inglis, Bob Isdale, Tony Jackson, Jamie Jones, Anton Kaim, Ara Kebapcioglu, Padraic Kennedy, Pat Kinney, Woody Kirkman, John Knight, Richard Kominsky, Mary Kubber, Fred Kuntz, David Lauer, Erik Leger, Bill Lohmeyer, Gary MacPherson, Joe Marble, Alex Marreck, Terry Marsh, Dan and Nancy Mattausch, Neil McRae, Bob Meyer, Drew Meyer, Colin Mills, Wilbur Miller, R. Mark Mitchell, Alan Moore, Phillip Morrill, Keith Myrom, The National Association of Aladdin Lamp Collectors, Dick O'Connell, Charles Owens, Doron Papo, Charles Randolph, Paul & Jane Rausch, Candy Reis, Derek Reynolds, George Rocen, Laszlo Rusvai, Joe St. Pierre, Gerd Seeber, Ralph Schoeneborn, Liz Skyllingstad, Tom Small, Fred Smith, Jeff Smith, Mark Sorlein, Joe Stout, Miles Stair, Phillip Sullivan, Hideaka Todaka, Jim & Sheri VanEs, Darcy Vantiger, Tom Waters, Nick Wendorf, Frank Weibel, Frank Wiedlocher, Eileen White, John Whitehead and Mel Zaloudek. With special thanks to our webhost Dennis Peterson who keeps the site running.

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