Sundart lamps manufactured and sold by Edward Miller & CO.

1909 - ?

Colonial table lamp

Sundart is the only known brand of kerosene mantle lamp sold directly by Edward Miller & CO.

Miller manufactured a family of very similar mantle lamps that were sold by other companies. All mantle lamp production and Sundart sales were handled by the company's mantle lamp department which was a separate business unit from other lamp production.

The Miller mantle lamp department was established in 1909 and most likely ceased operation at the beginning of 1942 when Brass became a restricted military material. The department possibly ceased operations a few years earlier.

Miller used existing tooling as much as possible from their round wick lamps. The lamp bowl used on the Flemish Fount lamp and their Colonial table lamp used tooling from the early version of their Lumo round wick table lamp. This should not be confused with the Lumo mantle lamp that Miller manufactured for the John S. Noel Lighting Supplies company nor the German made Lumo mantle burner.

The Sundart and Lumo mantle lamp were offered concurrently and both shared the same burner assembly with different labeling on the wick raiser knob. Both the Sundart and Lumo product lines share the same lamp base options and a side draft burner that was sold as an upgrade for flat wick lamps.

Early Miller Lumo center draft lamp

The Sundart lamp used the tooling created for the early Miller Lumo center draft lamp. The top half of the bowl was modified for the smaller filler cap and burner. And of course a smaller diameter centre draft tube was used.