🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Oil can?
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I don't think it's an oil can. Being from a mining town I've seen my share of miners lamps, yours is a style I haven't seen. I'm going with a miners lamp, does it have 2 compartments, one for water ,and one for carbide ?
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The tube on top has me wondering, how a reflector dish would be attached ? Is your item a Frankenstein of an oil can and a miners lamp 
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I think we need more photos from different angles than the only one we see now.
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Ask @DizzyDigger it might an early style bong pipe. 😁
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Odd one. I doubt oil can and lean towards some sort of oil burning lamp, but this is only a guess on my part.
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Hmmmmm...let me dig into my ancient bag of bud wisdom...
That would be a NO....
It is interesting how they soldered on those flanges, and it was made to
hang off of something (hook).
Beats the hell outta me Lieutenant...
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I would say it’s definitely a carbide lamp, although not necessarily for mining use. They were used for a number of purposes, including by railway workers for things like wheel inspection. The vertical tube would be the combustion chamber / burner tube for the acetylene gas and may or may not have had a concave reflector attached to it. There are dozens of different configurations for the tube and I can’t find an exact match, but this kind of thing (the first one has an offset tube and the second one has a dual flame outlet for increased illumination):
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I don't think it's an oil can.
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