Resource Books for Antique Oil Lamp Collecting

Video Transcript

"Talking about 19th Century lighting, fluid lamps in particular, we want to discuss a little bit about books and resources for someone starting to collect, I would highly recommend you go out and purchase some books, go to a library for reference so you can sit down and just look it over and try to figure out what fluid lamps are in what range, what year, what style you might particularly want to collect. You can do that in a library where you don't have to purchase anything. You can go into a place like Barnes and Noble and search through what they have for choices. You can also on-line buy books for resources for lighting and some of the books that I have here I recommend because I think these are wonderful books; is Oil Lamps right here, the Kerosene Era in North America which is a really good book, Antique Lamp and Buyers Guide. This is a little bit later period but also a good book. American Lighting from 1840 to 1940 is also another good book. These are just a few examples but there are many out there to choose from. There is another type of book that you can buy; Schroeder's which is a popular general book. It won't give you as much information but it will give you some information on lighting. it is a good place to start but when you really want to see a wide range of oil lamps, I would highly recommend a specific book that talks about that era which is specifically what we are talking about today, 1840's era. So you want to be able to look in the book, see the description so that when you go out there, you can try to identify and this will be really helpful for you. "