S. Clarke
Patent Fusee Candle Cooking Lamp
The Handbook for Travelers in Spain, Part 1, page 20, 1855.
Patent Fusee Candle Cooking Lamp
Will boil or stew a pound of Meat in one hour – boil Water, Eggs, Rice, Soup, &c. –giving at the same time a most brilliant light – is fitted with a mirror – forms a Reading Lamp and Hand Lantern. The Patent Fusee Candles can be instantly ignited as a lucifer; are made of hard stearine; will keep good for years in any climate. The cost in burning is less than one halfpenny per hour; the weight of the lamp complete, with one canister of Candles sufficient to last a month, supposing the Lamp to be in use eight hours per day – is under twelve pounds. The size of the two together, is ten inches broad, ten inches high, and six inches wide, proving it to be the most portable, effectual, and economical lamp that has yet been invented for the Army and the public generally.
Sold wholesale by the Patentee, 55, Albany Street, Regent’s Park, London; and Palmer and Co., Sutton Street, Clerkenwell. Exported by Beach, Son, and Nephew, 37, Lime Street, City. Retail by Outfitters, Lamp Dealers, &c.
Every Lamp bears a Label, "Patent Fusee Candle Cooking Lamp."
Following the advertisement were several testimonials that praised the lamp and provided some insight to it usefulness.
"We strongly recommend it to military men and travelers in general, as being superior to anything to anything we have yet seen." – Civil Service Gazette, April 7, 1855
"To military and naval men it must prove invaluable; with it and a days rations a man may laugh at the word 'privation' " – United States Gazette, April 7, 1855.
"As a camp, or ship, or traveling camarade it is Above all Price for not only will it cook a meal impromptu, but it will also supply a brilliant light for the student in his tent or cabin; need we say may more than that the candle (or fuel) is exceedingly economical. To rely upon the "Fusee Candle Cooking Lamp" a most acceptable boon to the army and navy, and all whose vacation may lead them to travel." – Naval and Military Gazette, April 7, 1855.
"The light afforded for writing, or for the operations of the toilet, is most excellent; and he must be a sorry campaigner who could not, by the aid of these admirable lamps, cook a savory mess. It is not only to the army that this lamp will be valuable, but be also found to add greatly to the comfort of the nursery and sick room, and to be highly useful to bachelor and emigrants." – British Army Dispatch, April 7, 1855.
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