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1 augustus 2017 - Oil lamp with wick and lid with a hole

question
I have bought an oil lamp TK2 with a wick in it. The dark ball seems made by hand and baked. Is this an original wick?

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Photo from Miranda Smeets

answer Hugo
We delivered no wick with the so called oil lamps. The lamps were purely decorative and were used for dry flower bouquets. The company Mur in Aalsmeer bought them by the thousands. I think that company no longer exists. They made there only dry bouqets which often were exported all over Europe.

We had not composed this glaze, but it come from Degussa in Germany.

note
P.C. Mur Droogbloemen arragementen Turfstekerstraat 21 Aalsmeer.
Source: Address book Aalsmeer 1 Januari 1977

question
In the lid of the oil lamp is a hole. I've found that this is in all your lids. At one of these vases I bought, a piece of string connect the lid with the handle of the vase. Is that the reason that you made a hole in the lid?

answer Hugo
That's right. If the supposedly oil lamp was filled with dried flowers, the lid remained at the oil lamp. Flower binders used iron wires as part of the dry flower bouquet. The iron wire was also used to bind the lid to the handle.


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