Koholmen is an excellent alternative to ordinary candlesticks. The kerosene lamp was the lighting technology that preceded electric lighting and the dominant light source in Swedish homes until the First World War. Today, kerosene lamps are mainly used as mood lighting as a more efficient alternative to candlesticks of various kinds. A room lit by kerosene lamps is something very special with the warm glow and the beautiful shadows that only a living flame can provide.

Light source: 6″ round burner

Kerosene lamp Skeppsholmen, a larger version of the popular Koholmen. The oil housing is in mouth-blown clear glass. The original Koholmen model was already in the Karlskrona lamp factory’s range at the end of the 19th century, but reached a wider audience in the 1950s. The brightness of a 10”’ round burner corresponds approximately to the brightness of ten candles.

The kerosene lamp is equipped with a round burner whose design is based on the patent of the Swiss Aimé Argand, where the richly perforated gallery and the airy design of the wick cone allow an abundant supply of oxygen that provides a very efficient combustion that results in a 6-15 times stronger brightness compared to lace wick burners.

Kerosene lamp with oil housing of uncolored glass. Swedish made model. Wick of cotton. Diameter 11.5cm, height 32cm.

Lamp oil is purchased separately.

Mirror lamp based on a 1920s model with a molded frame. Glazed with hand-blown mirror glass. Thin wooden back piece. Light arm of linseed oil fired wrought iron and iron suspension eye.

The mirror lamp is available unpainted (order via customer service) or painted in two different colors, birch bark glaze or mahogany glaze.

The mirror lamps have been painted by a local decorative painter and each mirror frame is unique in its pattern.