Screw-on (Threaded) Collars
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Screw-on (Threaded) Collars
by Charles (ceo5@texas.net)
Posted: Dec. 16, 1998 @ 18:17.
Most of the flat wick burner collars seem to be well documented as
to date, except for the most recent one. When did the burners show up
that had the threads molded in the glass, and the burner screwed on
like a jar lid? These "Eagle" burners were on the shelf at all the
hardware stores, until a few short years ago, then they disappeared
all at
once.
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On Dec. 16, 1998 @ 19:30, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary (fgraff@comcast.net) wrote:
Charles: I associate the thread-on collar with the later period of
kerosene, when only the hinterlands still used kero lamps. The
screw-on collar was just cheaper to make, and the lamp maker could
also eliminate the filler cap and collar. Say the mid to late 1930's.
Unfortunately, the threaded collar says "NEW", "CHEAP" and
"REPRODUCTION".
The "Eagle" burner really has naught to do with
the collar, except the common (and VERY chintzy) steel #2 Eagles from
Scovil in particular were in every variety store in the land in the
40's and 50's. The "Eagle" was originally an 1895 patent by the
American Burner Company with an automatic snuffer. It somehow became
the generic cheap burner of the post-war and 1950's period, as did
the once respectable "Queen Anne". It is only very recently that GOOD
quality flat wick burners are again available from the UK. If it
wasn't for them, all we'd have to work with would be tin-foil
Nutmegs, and steel Eagles and QAs (sold by those wholesale vendors
whose only objective is to provide the cheapest product possible), or
else the flimsy rope wicked trash the Orientals put on small lamps
sold to the gullible and elderly. Now, is there anyone in the
business I HAVEN'T offended?
By the way, how many steel Eagles do
you want? I have a dead stores whole inventry! :: Fil ::