About Lamplight

We have been making oil lamps and the fuel that goes in them since 1964. Not as a revival or a heritage line: the same category, without a break, for six decades.

The work happens in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Since 1998 we have been part of W.C. Bradley Co., which also owns the Tiki torch line, and that is the reason a lot of people think we closed. Our old direct-to-consumer site now redirects to the parent company. We did not go anywhere. We just stopped selling to you directly and let retailers carry the range instead.

What we make

  • Oil lamps and hurricane lanterns for the table, the porch, the cabin and the emergency box.
  • Ultra-pure liquid paraffin, blended to burn indoors without soot or smell.
  • Wicks, chimneys and burners, because the consumable half of a lamp has to be buyable on its own.
  • Outage kits that pair lamps with fuel in one box.

Why this site exists

Our range is spread across hardware chains and marketplace listings, and the listings copy each other badly. Fuel capacity goes missing. Chimney base openings get confused with chimney height, which is how someone ends up with a 3 in chimney for a 2-5/8 in lamp. So we published the specification for every model we build on its own page, plus a size chart that puts all the fitting measurements in one table.

Where a figure is not published, we say so instead of printing a dash. A dash reads like an oversight.

How buying works

You cannot check out here. Every product page sends you to our retail partner, who handles payment, shipping and returns, and we earn a commission on those sales at no extra cost to you. That is how this site pays for itself. It does not change the numbers we publish, which come off the same spec sheets our factory works to.

Where we are

Correspondence goes to 411 E Wisconsin Ave, Suite 1710, Milwaukee, WI 53202. That is an office. There is no counter and no stock there, so please do not post a lamp back to it: returns go through the retailer who sold it to you, on the label they issue. Email reaches us faster anyway, at [email protected].