1880's Rochester Fancy Brass Kerosene Oil Font with Signed Patented Flame Spreader

1880'S ROCHESTER FANCY BRASS KEROSENE OIL FONT W/ SIGNED PATENTED FLAME SPREADER. Circa 1880's Rochester kerosene oil fancy brass kerosene oil lamp font. This high end well made slip in brass font was manufactured for use on GWTW parlor lamps as well as Victorian hanging and other early kerosene oil lamps.

Fancy embossed patterned shoulder, with original filler cap, and a period and 1880's patent dated and signed'THE ROCHESTER' flame spreader. Fancy embossed brass very well-made font, approximately 4 3/4" base diameter, approximately 3 1/2" deep, approximately 5 1/4 wide at the top. Undamaged with no cracks breaks or repairs. Often d ifficult-to-find period Victorian high end Rochester font for the early lamp enthusiast.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.

If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers..

And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another]...

Till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery... And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

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