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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 200428, member: 44"]With the dual wicks, the burners appear to be a type of duplex burner made by P&A (Plume & Atwood). Here is another.</p><p><a href="http://www.bonanza.com/items/like/85804895/The-Plume-Atwood-Mfg-Company-Dual-Wick-Kerosene-Burner" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bonanza.com/items/like/85804895/The-Plume-Atwood-Mfg-Company-Dual-Wick-Kerosene-Burner" rel="nofollow">http://www.bonanza.com/items/like/85804895/The-Plume-Atwood-Mfg-Company-Dual-Wick-Kerosene-Burner</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now I'm not personally familar with this particular type of duplex burner with only 1 wick turner (thumbwheel). I have only worked with duplex burners with 2 thumbwheels. Who made these lamps is still up for grabs. Just because they have P & A burners doesn't mean Plume & Atwood was the manufacturer. Their burners were and still are used on a great variety of lamps. P&A was probably the most prolific of burner manufacturers. Now P &A did make lamps of their own so their is a chance these may be their lamps, but at this moment I can't say for sure.</p><p><a href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_p&a.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_p&a.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_p&a.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Too bad there isn't a patent number on the lamp itself. I'm still looking through my oil lamp reference books for these lamps. I haven't stumbled on them yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Forgot to say that the description of P&A duplex burner that I linked to was wrong on age of their burner. The seller dated it "1832." P&A wasn't founded until around 1869.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 200428, member: 44"]With the dual wicks, the burners appear to be a type of duplex burner made by P&A (Plume & Atwood). Here is another. [URL]http://www.bonanza.com/items/like/85804895/The-Plume-Atwood-Mfg-Company-Dual-Wick-Kerosene-Burner[/URL] Now I'm not personally familar with this particular type of duplex burner with only 1 wick turner (thumbwheel). I have only worked with duplex burners with 2 thumbwheels. Who made these lamps is still up for grabs. Just because they have P & A burners doesn't mean Plume & Atwood was the manufacturer. Their burners were and still are used on a great variety of lamps. P&A was probably the most prolific of burner manufacturers. Now P &A did make lamps of their own so their is a chance these may be their lamps, but at this moment I can't say for sure. [URL]http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_companies_p&a.htm[/URL] Too bad there isn't a patent number on the lamp itself. I'm still looking through my oil lamp reference books for these lamps. I haven't stumbled on them yet. --- Susan Edit: Forgot to say that the description of P&A duplex burner that I linked to was wrong on age of their burner. The seller dated it "1832." P&A wasn't founded until around 1869.[/QUOTE]
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