Site Upgrade
Last Edited: 6 August 2025Mini Oil Lamps . com is currently undergoing a site upgrade. Both "housekeeping" and site improvements will be implemented. They are as follows:
1) The existing images up to Lamp0068 currently have "MiniKeroseneLamps.com" watermarked on them - these will all be changed to "Mini Oil Lamps . com".
2) The image sizes in the public album will be increased for better viewing. Currently they are 200x150 pixels - they will be increased to (...)
Mini Oil Lamps . com now live
Last Edited: 15 March 2025Mini Oil Lamps . com is now live. Mini Kerosene Lamps . com will remain up and running for a short time before being deleted just to compare content and verify correct functioning of the new site. The other six domains are now permanently redirected to this site, Mini Oil Lamps . com. All the background information about this change can be found here: Exciting News - New Domain Name (...)
Exciting News - New Domain Name Soon!
Last Edited: 12 July 2025This is a long post but people might find it fascinating to read about this collector's 20 year chase for the right domain names - yes, names, plural. Why get just one domain name when you can get all keyword variations? Read on to find out all the details. But if it's too long or detailed then here's the summary: this site will soon be re-branding to Mini Oil Lamps . com, plus all keyword variations of Mini/Miniature + Oil/Kerosene + Lamp/Lamps in the dot (...)
Photographing The Lamps
Last Edited: 15 March 2025While visiting a website might be quick and easy, creating one is often not. That's especially true if it is genuine original content and has lots of images and information, and even more so when web design is not your primary field of expertise. But a rough system has been worked out and now it's just a repetitive task of photographing the lamps, processing the images, creating albums, uploading the files, and then recording all the relevant information for (...)
How It All Started
Last Edited: 18 Mar 2025Hello and welcome to Mini Oil Lamps . com. This site was started in December, 2022. Back then however it was under the domain name Mini Kerosene Lamps . com. In March 2025 a long sought after domain name was finally acquired at an expiry auction, and on 15 March 2025 the site was rebranded to Mini Oil Lamps . com.
This is a project of a private collector of vintage miniature kerosene or oil lamps and has been envisioned for over four decades. Well, (...)