Among the rare antiques the Farrs displayed were three handcrafted pewter lamps that burned either camphene (a purified form of turpentine) or whale oil. One sported a large convex crystal lens ...

The economic stakes were high: Each expedition could yield hundreds of barrels of precious whale oil. There was also valuable ambergris, a substance from the sperm whale used in making perfumes ...

Whale oil was a prized commodity, keeping American colonists awake after dark by providing the fuel needed to light their lamps. Fast forward to today and images of dead whales on the ocean’s ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

This terracotta lamp decorated with two fishes and a horse would have been used by the ancient Romans for artificial light; it would have been fuelled by olive oil and could easily be carried from ...

A schoolboy - thought to be Antiques Roadshow's "youngest ever guest" - was left gobsmacked by the worth of a genie lamp. The young man couldn't believe the true worth of a "genie lamp" he found ...

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Some of the oldest artifacts found at the museum are a 2,000 year old whale oil lamp and Native American ... required importing almost a million antique bricks from Europe — talk about dedication.

An antique lamp post in a conservation area has been saved after a protest. The old post in Church Hill, Patcham, Brighton, stopped working last week and residents were upset to see a modern post ...

Right whales were named by whalers who identified them as the “right” whale to kill on a hunt. These leviathans had enormous value for their plentiful oil and baleen, which were used for ...

Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning. Give me oil in my lamp, I pray. Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning, Keep me burning till the break of day. Give me joy in my heart, keep me singing.