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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 116425, member: 44"]This lamp appears to have a central draft burner. The picture doesn't show enough detail in the burner area for me to even begin to guess on age or maker of the lamp or the burner. These burners were made by a multitude of companies such as P&A (Plume & Atwood), B & H (Bradley & Hubbard), Miller, M & W (Matthews & Willard), etc... P & A was a prolific suppliers of burners. Most Miller lamps have Miller burners as do the others if the burners haven't been replaced. Miller, B & H and M & W are noted for their brass font lamps. As Spring suggested, do look the lamp over from the bottom of base, around the font cover to the burner's wick-winder/thumbwheel and the top of the burner (the fame spreader) for any marks, logos printing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom of the following page gas a brief expanation of central draft burners:</p><p><a href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_burner_id.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_burner_id.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_burner_id.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 116425, member: 44"]This lamp appears to have a central draft burner. The picture doesn't show enough detail in the burner area for me to even begin to guess on age or maker of the lamp or the burner. These burners were made by a multitude of companies such as P&A (Plume & Atwood), B & H (Bradley & Hubbard), Miller, M & W (Matthews & Willard), etc... P & A was a prolific suppliers of burners. Most Miller lamps have Miller burners as do the others if the burners haven't been replaced. Miller, B & H and M & W are noted for their brass font lamps. As Spring suggested, do look the lamp over from the bottom of base, around the font cover to the burner's wick-winder/thumbwheel and the top of the burner (the fame spreader) for any marks, logos printing. The bottom of the following page gas a brief expanation of central draft burners: [URL]http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_info_burner_id.htm[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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