lamp

Potters Cement
Asbestos or Steatite Wick
1.5 oz. flowers of sulphur
1 oz. burnt alum
borax
ethyl alcohol
small sheet of copper

mix thoroughly and place in subliming pot.
place a similar pot, mouth to mouth, with the first and seal with potters cement.
the pot with the mixture is to be set on a coal fire to become red hot.
( in this way the sulphur is sublimed and ascends to the upper pot as a vapor, to be depositedthere as a fixed mass).
When everything is sublimed andthe bottom pot has been redhot for approx. 1 hr., remove the apparatus and allow it to cool.
Break open and pulverize the sublimed mass to a powder.
Add half as much borax - by weight - to the powder and reduce the whole to a similar powder.
Place powder in a shallow glass basin and cover with ethyl alcohol.
Allow the spirit to evaporate slowly.
When the mass runs like a thick oil, a little is removed and laid on a redhot sheet of copper.
The mass must melt like wax (without smoking) then it is ready. If it still smokes, more ethyl alcohol must be poured into the basin and evaporated as before( repeat as needed).
The wick about (2) inches long and thick as the biggest piece of quill. The material is asbestos or white fibrous gypsum (steatite) bound with silk thread.
Place the prepared mass in a strong glass (for the purpose).
Insert the wick and let stand for 24 hrs in hot sand or oven.
Pull the wick up and a sufficiently large lamp chimney is made so that it is only slightly exposed on top.
Pour in the mass and place the mass in hot sand or oven till the mass melts and collects around the wick. 
Lite.