Dietz Railroad Lantern Restoration

Ladies and Gentlemen. This week we restored a Dietz Lantern. This was great fun to do and one of our quicker restorations. Burns 23 hours on 15 ounces of fuel with 6 Candle Power Output. Since 1840 Dietz kerosene lanterns have been used on boats at sea, in the covered wagons of pioneers heading west, for railroad signals, and by farmers finding their way to the barn in a snowstorm. The Dietz Oil Lanterns are made to be used on the homestead. They’re resilient even when accidentally knocked around. Due to seamless operation even in lawless winds, Dietz lanterns are known around the world as, “The Old Reliable.“ Some history on the company. At age 22, in 1840, Robert Edwin Dietz bought a small lamp and oil shop in Brooklyn, NY. Robert, with his brother William, called the company Dietz, Brother, and Company. One of their first products was a candle lantern; they later made sperm whale oil lamps, girandoles, hall lamps, and chandeliers. Three more of