This is one of the lamps advertised to me a few weeks ago. Instead of ordering from the advertiser, I found it for a couple dollars less at a local hardware store. The store had two different models. One was cheaper, in every sense of the word, and I simply wouldn’t trust using it. There were two Ellipses and I bought the one that did not have a bent burner base.
The advertiser claims a height of 12 inches (it’s more like 13.5), a fuel capacity of 19.5 oz for a 30 hour burn time, and an output of ~10 candlepower. Not sure I believe that, short of having the wick too high and burning wick besides fuel. Though it might be that I’ve filled it with ‘Firefly’ rather than ‘Klean Heat’ or ‘Medallion’ or outright plain kerosene. The Firefly is truly odorless, which suggests that it’s “paraffin” rather than kerosene – and supposedly while that eliminates any odor, it comes at the price of half the light output.
I will say the lamp certainly looks nice, and it does light up a room enough to see to get around. Not sure I’d want to try to read all but larger print by it, at least with the current fuel. It is, of course, made in China and it shows some. The base is not quite flat. It’s not off enough to be a tipping problem, but setting the lamp down reveals that it doesn’t quite rest flat.