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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 17646, member: 25&quot;]This is going to make me sound antediluvian but when I was a kid, the lamplighter walked around with a pole with a hook on it, like a window opener for high windows, and tugged on a short chain to turn the gas on. (I suspect a small pilot light was permanently burning.)</p><p><br /></p><p>No flames involved, and in any case, any lighting device short of a cresset would seem to require more precision than that device could deliver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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