I have two of them.

I remember seeing my grandmother many a time, when the 'Amschel' was partly filled with melted lard or liquid fat, light a piece of lamp wick hanging over the little pointed end or snout of the lamp.

The lamp was usually suspended from a chain fastened to either side.

A spike on the chain was stuck into the wall, which was composed of logs.

This light, by the way, was not particularly brilliant, even when one sat close beside it, and could not be compared with the gas and electric lights of our present day and generation.