Oil Lamp – EAPC
| Dimensions: | 6.25″ dia at widest x 18″ high with Beaded Top Chimney*, 18.5″ high with Wreaths & Torches Chimney*. Brass-Threaded Collar: 1 3/16″ dia collar opening. Glass-threaded Collar: 1.25″ dia collar opening. |
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| Part Number: | Issued with two different chimneys: Beaded Top and Wreaths & Torches, aka Diana and two different bases: – Brass-Collared and Glass-Collared. |
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| Known Colors: | Crystal |
| Other Names: | Kerosene Lamp, Sewing Lamp |
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| Notes: | Issued with two different chimneys: Beaded Top and Wreaths & Torches, aka Diana and two different bases: – Brass-Collared and Glass-Collared. |
Anchor Hocking’s Early American Prescut Oil Lamp is perhaps the most coveted and prized piece in the EAPC line. It was issued with two different Bases, one with a brass-threaded collar and another with a glass-threaded collar. I’m certain that the original hurricane, on Oil Lamps sold by Anchor Hocking, was the Beaded Top Chimney and the globe on lamps sold by Lamplight Farms was the Wreaths & Torches, aka Diana, Chimney.
Anchor Hocking made the EAPC Oil Lamp Bases and Beaded Top Chimneys. It purchased the burners and wicks from another company to include with its packaged Oil Lamps.
EAPC Oil Lamp Burners – How to Replace
Original brass-collar EAPC oil lamps had burners made by Eagle installed, but you can use #2 Brass or Brass-Plated Oil Lamp Burners, aka Eagle-style or Queen Anne-style, by other companies as well. The EAPC oil lamp’s collar diameter is 1 3/16″.
If you’re planning to light your oil lamp and there are any issues with the condition of its current burner (wick turner doesn’t turn smoothly, one or more tines are broken, tines don’t hold the chimney securely, the burner is corroded), I recommend you replace the old burner with a brand new one for safety’s sake. You can always keep the original Eagle burner in your collection for completeness – I just wouldn’t use the old burner.
Original glass-collar EAPC Oil Lamp Bases also had Eagle burners. However, the glass-threaded bases have a little larger collar than the brass-threaded, so a #2 brass-plated burner is too small. You’ll need a brass burner that fits a 1.25″ collar. I guess they’re slightly bigger.
EAPC Oil Lamp Globes – How to Replace
Two different globes were sold with Early American Prescut oil lamps: a clear beaded top chimney and a clear chimney decorated in white with wreaths & torches. The former chimney was issued on oil lamps sold by Anchor Hocking and the latter globe, sometimes called Diana, came with lamps sold by Lamplight Farms.
When shopping for an EAPC Oil Lamp, it’s common to find them with a different-style chimney or no globe at all. Fear not, both issued chimneys are still in production, so they’re easily replaced. Look for globes with a 3″ fitter, aka 3″ diameter base. I have both of the original chimney styles, as well as some red ones I like to use for Christmas. I am always looking for more, so I can change my Oil Lamps’ look depending on my mood or the season.
Mysterious Origin of the EAPC Oil Lamp
The origin of the EAPC Oil Lamp is a mystery. It is not listed in any Anchor Hocking catalogs I’ve found, although four similar oil lamps without a star are. It’s possible that Anchor Hocking only produced the Oil Lamp by special order for other companies. They did things like that a lot.
We know that EAPC Oil Lamps were sold at one time by Lamplight Farms – a friend found a box to prove it – and by Macy’s Department stores – some collectors remember seeing them there. I just keep hoping the oil lamp will turn up in the next Anchor Hocking catalog or sales flyer I find so I can solve the mystery!
EAPC Oil Lamp Availability
Today you’re unlikely to find a new Oil Lamp unless it’s new old stock (NOS). They’re usually priced at $100 to $250 regardless of condition, age, or presence of chimney – and then there are shipping charges if you’re buying online. Because new burners and chimneys are easy to find, if you find a good deal on a lamp whose base is in good condition, grab it while you can! You can always replace the burner and chimney.
Shop for Replacement EAPC Oil Lamp Parts
- #2 Oil Lamp Burners for EAPC Oil Lamps
- 3″ Fitter Lamp Globes/Chimneys for EAPC Oil Lamps
- Wicks for #2 Oil Lamp Burners
- Lamp Oil
More on Early American Prescut (EAPC)
- Early American Prescut Glass by Tina Spain McDuffie
Available in hardcover, paperback, and coil-bound. - Early American Prescut Collection List by Tina Spain McDuffie
Mobile-friendly digital file available as spreadsheet or PDF. - About Early American Prescut
- Early American Prescut Color
- EAPC-Patterned Ceramics
- EAPC Sightings
- EAPC Frankenstein Gallery
- Where to Shop for Early American Prescut Pieces
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There aren’t any glass threaded EAPC lamps. Only lamps that have lost the threaded brass insert. That’s why a burner is either loose or will not tighten in position. I’ve re-attached a few of them.
Actually, there are both types. EAPC Oil Lamps with a glass-threaded collar have glass threading inside the collar. Lamps with brass inserts have brass threading and the inside of the collar is smooth glass, not threaded, into which a brass or brass-plated burner can be inserted. So there are two types.
My friend Nancy recently acquired a “glass-threaded” EAPC Lamp. In her search for a burner that would fit, we’ve been learning more about oil lamps. My apologies. I think you’re correct. That there may have only been one type of EAPC Oil Lamp. Those we think are glass-threaded may indeed be just lamps whose brass collars have come loose.
From what we’ve learned so far, dimpling along the top is all that holds the collar to the lamp. If the burner rusts and gets stuck to the collar, the collar can come out with the burner when unscrewing the burner.
We’re still researching this to be certain, but I think you’re right.
I can not speak for the Anchor Hocking lamps of this particular design, as all the AH lamps of this general pattern have the reeded base, not this one with the stars. The reeded base AH lamps I have in my collection have 3 styles of the fonts: plain smooth rounded font, swirled pattern rounded font, or a round “paneled” type font. All have the threaded brass insert, and have P&A Eagle burners. The earlier P&A burners have a round thumbwheel on the wick adjusting spindle, later ones made up to 1955 (when a disastrous flood damaged the P&A factories and machinery) have an octagon thumbwheel, and the ones made in 1959 and later will have the added markings of Risdon Mfg. Co. or Dorset Div., the companies that took over P&A’s burner manufacturing facilities.
However, regarding the Bartlett-Collins “Homesteader” series lamps, another common and popular lamp that was produced in several variations and sold over a period of many years, some came with P&A Eagle burners and some later ones also came with Lamplight Farms burners. And some of the ones with LF burners do not have the brass insert, and use a non-standard LF burner that has a larger threaded base to fit the glass threads in the neck of the fonts that do not have the brass insert. These are not “out of spec” LF burners and the lamps are not missing the insert – these lamps and burners were made for each other. The necks of these lamps do have the recessed circular area with the little dimples that the top of the threaded insert fit into, but like the glass threads this was made as part of the lamp manufacturing process and the presence of this feature does not mean the lamp originally had the threaded insert.
Lancaster Colony Corp. acquired Bartlett-Collins in 1982 and continued to produce the Homesteader series lamps under the B-C name. In November 2007, Anchor Hocking acquired the Bartlett-Collins facilities, and on Feb. 1 2008 announced that they would be closing the B-C plant in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. I don’t know when the factory actually stopped production and which items might have been shifted to production at other AH facilities, but a late production B-C Homesteader pattern lamp marketed as an Anchor Hocking lamp has been reported by a reliable and respected lamp collector. I don’t know which burner – Eagle or Lamplight Farms – this lamp has, and will try to get more information on that. I also don’t know when production of P&A Eagle burners ceased by Risdon and Dorset….. if production of the AH reeded base lamps and the AH re-branded B-C lamps continued after Eagle burner production ceased, it makes sense that they would use Lamplight Farms burners, which were the most available and affordable burners available at that time. Lamplight Farms went into the business of marketing kerosene lamps and supplies in 1964, so all LF burners and lamps made for/by LF would date from that year and later.
Lamplight Farms is still in business, but do not appear to be offering the Anchor Hocking or Bartlett-Collins pattern lamps, and I’ve only seen a couple lamps – a standard one using a #2 burner for a 3 inch base chimney, and a smaller one – their current offering of lamps and their burners are currently made in China.
Let me correct my previous post to say “All the AH lamps of this general pattern IN MY COLLECTION have the reeded base”.