ANTIQUE KEROSENE LAMP EDWARD MILLER  “VENUS” PAT DEC 10 1867 BRASS BURNER NO. 2

This is a nice old “VENUS” brass kerosene oil burner by Edward Miller Co. of Meridien, Connecticut. It is a No. 2 burner that comes with a modern glass tall chimney. The chimney is 10” tall. The burner is operational and ready to fit a nice old kerosene lamp. There is a dent in the burner cover.

Edward Miller started his business in Meriden, Connecticut, in the 1840's making and selling camphene and burning fluid burners. By the 1860's, Edward Miller had become an aggressive competitior in the lamp business.


From December 4, 1860 to May 12, 1942, the company gained the rights to at least 139 lighting-related patents. These include lamps, lanterns, burners, lampfillers, bicycle lamps, hanging lamp components of all descriptions, and metal spinning processes. Miller's most famous burner was named for its inventor, John J. Marcy. Marcy assigned six patents to Miller, and may have been in Miller's employ during the 1860's. Marcy has at least eleven lighting patents to his credit. Other notable inventors include Frank Theodore Williams, assignor of twenty-three patents; Frank Rhind, assignor of twenty-seven patents, and William C. Homan, assignor of thirty-seven patents to Edward Miller & Co. source: lampworks.com


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