How Do You Find Burners For Antique Oil Lamps?
“When talking about these 19th Century oil lamps, we should at least talk a little bit about the burners. Unfortunately, I don’t have an early 2 prong burner that comes out of the whale oil. It has two prongs this center and the wick comes right up through the top of each one of those and it is screwed on to this collar. That would have been original to this lamp. What happens over the years, it goes because it is made out of a pewter get worn or burnt or destroyed. So they take them off and a lot of times you will see a whale oil lamp just like this without any burner on it at all. It helps to have the original burner but it is not always there. So we can make alternative choices for these lamps. We can add a burner and wick to it just for show or to use. So this is a number one burner and it comes in two standard sizes, number one and number two. I am trying to see if I have a number two here. I think there is a number two on this lamp right here which is a much larger burner. So two
