Left to right, a whale oil lamp without its works and what appears to be a simple Middle Eastern lamp.
The whale oil lamp is a family heirloom. The note is in my mother’s handwriting. It is from her side of the family. I don’t know whether it was bought by her parents as an antique or whether it was has been passed down since it was current, the early 19th Century, in her mother’s family. The works are missing. I suppose is was an Argand lamp. Perhaps it was converted to kerosine or electric incandescence and the conversion became obsolete or broke and was discarded. The inside is still wet from being washed.
The other is from some yard sale of flea market. It appears to me to be a very small and simple oil candle-like light from the Middle East or Southern Asia, complete except for wick and oil.
(The bottle with the candle and the vase are my work, in reduction fired stoneware. The salt and pepper shakers are Delfts, Holland earthenware.)