made at Bathgate, West Lothian
These three blocks of solid state paraffin date from the mid 1850s. The blocks would have been heated before being used as oil. The handwritten label on the one in the front of the photograph reads 'Solid Paraffin from Young's Paraffin Works, Bathgate'.
Tallow dip with a cotton wick, made and used at the farm of Milsington, Roxburghshire, mid 1850s
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