Lamp wax
code: LVSAV1998.061
Description
Block of miner's lamp wax, wrapped in original paper, c1940. Manufactured by Scottish Oils and Shell Mex with the address 53 Bothwell St Glasgow
Open flamed "poorie" lamps used underground in shale mines (and other mines free of inflammable gasses), were fuelled by a lamp wax produced from oilshale. These lamps were filled with shavings of lamp wax, pared off the block with a penknife