Miller Library Lamp
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Miller Library Lamp
by jacqui hughes (jacal@xtra.co.nz)
Posted: Dec. 05, 1998 @ 01:38.
I have a hanging library lamp with the name of 'Miller" on the bronze
cap where oil was poured in.The glasses are handpainted, numbered by
hand on interior #147, frame is bronze,rise & fall, smoke bell &
crystals top & bottom all in tact & operating. Any informaton on the
makers of this lamp would be greatly
appreiciated.
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On Dec. 05, 1998 @ 19:42, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary (fgraff@comcast.net) wrote:
Jacqui: "Miller" is Edward Miller and Co., Meriden, CT. They
specialized in lamps, castings and brass fabrication, as did other
Connecticut neighbors like Plume and Atwood and Bradley and Hubbard.
Miller was part of the kerosene lamp business almost from the
beginning, and was quite innovative during several periods. They
survived well into the electric lamp era, making table lamps, etc.,
many with the slag glass shades so popular at the time. For a while,
the company was part of General Electric, and it survives today as a
brass fabricator under completely different ownership.
The flame
spreader is (or was, if it is missing or replaced by an electric
socket) marked with the Miller trademark (initials in a diamond
shaped figure). Miller evidently did a lot of exporting, as I am told
that the Miller is one of the most common lamps found in Australia. I
have seen photos of a New Zealand collection that contains only
Miller library lamps, and it would be surprising to find that many in
a collection in the States!
You might want to get a hold of Peter
Cuffley's book "Oil and Kerosene Lamps in Australia". Recently
reprinted, it has a lot of Miller stuff in it. :: Fil ::