. jAlbum 10 slides/The Desirable Dozen.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 A GREAT START - THE DESIRABLE DOZEN A GREAT START - THE DESIRABLE DOZEN slides/The Desirable Dozen.JPG slides/American LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) slides/American LSide.jpg slides/American Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) slides/American Front.jpg slides/American RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) slides/American RSide.jpg slides/American Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) slides/American Back.jpg slides/American Socket Reflector Attachment.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) slides/American Socket Reflector Attachment.jpg slides/American Top Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) slides/American Top Marking.jpg slides/American Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) AMERICAN - Extremely rare nickel-plated brass cap lamp, marked on top THE AMERICAN LAMP & SPLTY. CO. EVANSVILLE – IND, the water control lever is ON in the center position and OFF either to the right or left positions, the unique beautiful 2 3/8 in. nickel-plated brass reflector resembles a flower blossom, this lamp is one of four lamps, all rare, that uses a screw socket for the reflector attachment (the four are the American, Anton, The Buddy and the H Gall - three are included in my pics), 3 3/4 in. high to top of water cap, 2 in. base dia., complete with felt retainer in unfired condition (This lamp is featured in Fig. 2, pg.209 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp was patented by James H. Powers of Evansville, IN as patent No. 1,272,315 awarded on July 9, 1918. The lamp ca. 1918 is one of four known examples and the only nickel-plated variety. The American Lamp & Specialty Co. was in business in Evansville from around 1920 till it closed in 1924. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 208-209) slides/American Bottom.jpg slides/Powers American Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AMERICAN LAMP PATENT AWARDED TO JAMES POWERS JULY 9, 1918 AMERICAN LAMP PATENT AWARDED TO JAMES POWERS JULY 9, 1918 slides/Powers American Patent.jpg slides/Anthracite RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) slides/Anthracite RSide.jpg slides/Anthracite Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) slides/Anthracite Front.jpg slides/Anthracite LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) slides/Anthracite LSide.jpg slides/Anthracite Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) slides/Anthracite Back.jpg slides/Anthracite Bottom I.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) slides/Anthracite Bottom I.jpg slides/Anthracite Bottom II.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) ANTHRACITE LOOP & HOOK - Hard to find brass loop and hook lamp known as the anthracite, very likely manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL; ca. 1911-12; 3 3/8 in. high to top of screw water door, 1 7/8 in. base dia., raking wire water feed, plain unbanded early base with rolled threads and concave bottom, and a soldered-on 2 1/8 in. reflector without sparker (This lamp is distinguished by a tiny loop in the wire hook that extends slightly above the top of the lamp. Named the barrel lamp by Illinois miners because of its shape and the anthracite lamp by longtime lamp collector George Bayles because he noted a number were found in the anthracite coal fields area of Pennsylvania, it is nearly certain that the unmarked lamp was manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. The wide mouth bottom, soldered-on reflector, lack of a striker, and similar size and shape to the small Maple City lamp were distinguishing features that established the Maple City connection. The interchangeable external gasket with Maple City lamps and a nearly identical gas tube arrangement between the lamps further verified the association. Anthracite lamps have two styles of threaded-base inserts, machine cut threads on some and rolled threads on others. Similarly, some lamps had twist ball water feeds while others had simple raking wire water feeds. Lamps are known with later-style banded bottoms as well as early-style unbanded bottoms. As noted by Dave Thorpe, three base style and water feed combinations seem to occur. The first style of a banded base with rolled threads occurs with both twist ball and raking wire water feeds. The second style of a banded base with machine cut threads occurs with only the twist ball feeds. The third and rarest style as shown in the pictured lamp is the plain unbanded base with rolled threads which occurs only with the raking wire feed. It is fairly certain that Maple City manufactured the unmarked anthracite lamps and their own marked lamps concurrently at least during the 1911-12 timeframe. It seems reasonable that the anthracite lamps were made for other retailers but the lack of advertising records combined with the rarity of the lamps leaves this story untold. see Spence and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #9, pp 3-10; Thorpe, Eureka #16, pp 2-4; and Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 160-64) slides/Anthracite Bottom II.jpg slides/Anthracite and Maple City Lamps.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTHRACITE LOOP AND HOOK WITH OTHER MAPLE CITY LAMPS - The unmarked anthracite lamp in the center shares many size and shape characteristics with the marked Maple City lamps on the left and right, providing strong evidence that the anthracite was made by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. ANTHRACITE LOOP AND HOOK WITH OTHER MAPLE CITY LAMPS - The unmarked anthracite lamp in the center shares many size and shape characteristics with the marked Maple City lamps on the left and right, providing strong evidence that the anthracite was made by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth, IL. slides/Anthracite and Maple City Lamps.jpg slides/Anton Square LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) slides/Anton Square LSide.jpg slides/Anton Square Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) slides/Anton Square Front.jpg slides/Anton Square RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) slides/Anton Square RSide.jpg slides/Anton Square Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) slides/Anton Square Back.jpg slides/Anton Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) slides/Anton Marking.jpg slides/Anton Square Top.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) slides/Anton Square Top.jpg slides/Anton Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) AANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) slides/Anton Bottom.jpg slides/Anton with Reflector Removed.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) CHECK OUT THE ANTON PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC. ANTON - The Anton is a rare patented cap lamp with a very short lifetime. Marked in a shield under an Eagle Trade Mark *ST*AR* GEO. T. ANTON & BROTHER MONONGAHELA, PA. PAT. JUNE 20 1916 on the right side of the water tank, its most interesting features are the square top and the socket reflector. Height to the top of the water door is 4 1/16 in. and the base dia. is 2 in. The lamp is all brass with a screw-socketed 2 1/4 in. dia. brass reflector and an early smooth-sided Justrite base. The lamp is an early version that follows the patent, especially the strap cap braces that are attached to the front sides of the lamp. This lamp is featured in Fig. 3 on pg. 216 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. (Arguably the Antons were the premier wick lamp makers in the U. S. In 1874, brothers George, John and Christopher each set up workshops to manufacture wick lamps for local PA coal miners; later on, George and John combined their operations and marketed their lamps worldwide under the George Anton name; the Geo. Anton STAR brand lamp, first sold in 1898, was the best selling wick lamp of its time due to the quality construction and attractive logo; in 1905 George Anton withdrew from the business and the name was changed to J. Anton and Son; the son named George T. Anton took over the business when his father retired and changed its name to Geo. T. Anton and Brother. The bother was named John B. Anton and it is John B’s patent for a carbide lamp that brought the Anton’s into the carbide lamp business. However, their carbide lamp business seemed doomed from the start. John B. Anton’s patent application for a lamp with a screw-socket reflector was filed March 22, 1916. Augie Hansen of Justrite filed a patent application for The Buddy lamp, also with a screw-socket reflector, several months earlier. A US Patent Office hearing determined that Anton’s application included a working model and thus was awarded a patent on June 20, 1916 while Hansen’s The Buddy patent was denied due to interference with Anton’s patent. The Buddy lamp died a very quick death (see The Buddy lamp later in the cap lamp pics) and surviving examples are quite scarce. The Anton lamp although receiving a patent did not fare well either and within a year, the company ceased production. Anton’s square topped lamps are also quite scarce as well and highly sought by collectors. By 1918, the Anton business ceased production of all mine lamps and eventually became a wholesale supplier to tinners and roofers. See Thorpe, Beneath the Surface – Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners’ Carbide Light, pp 102-110) CHECK OUT THE ANTON PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC. slides/Anton with Reflector Removed.jpg slides/Anton Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JOHN B. ANTON'S PATENT - Filed Mar. 22, 1916 and awarded June 20, 1916 to John B. Anton, Monongahela Borough, PA. JOHN B. ANTON'S PATENT - Filed Mar. 22, 1916 and awarded June 20, 1916 to John B. Anton, Monongahela Borough, PA. slides/Anton Patent.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt LSide.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt RSide.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt Back.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, pictured in Fig. 27 on pg 85 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines and in Fig. 6 on pg 73 in Dave Thorpe's Beneath the Surface - Inventors and Marketeers of the Miners' Carbide Light, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown later in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt Bottom.jpg slides/Arrow NP RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW NP - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW NP - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow NP RSide.jpg slides/Arrow NP LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW NP - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW NP - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow NP LSide.jpg slides/Arrow NP Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW NP - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW NP - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow NP Back.jpg slides/Arrow NP Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW NP BOTTOM - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW NP BOTTOM - Nickel plated Arrow cap lamp, marked ARROW TRADE MARK PATENTED on top, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish or in nickel-plated brass as is shown in the photo to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow NP Bottom.JPG slides/Arrow Gilt II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt II LSide.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt II Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt II Front.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt II RSide.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt II Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt II Back.jpg slides/Arrow Gilt II Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) ARROW GILT II - Hard to find brass lamp with a gold-painted finish, marked on top ARROW (with an arrow through it) TRADE MARK PATENTED and ON and OFF for the water control lever, made by Universal Lamp Co., ca. early 1920s, with set screw reflector, marked MADE IN USA PATENTED on bottom (The ARROW cap lamp was produced by the Universal Lamp Co. of Chicago, IL. Its name comes about starting in 1917 when partners Jacob Sherman and Simon Sorokin were doing business as the Arrow Brass Mfg. Co of New York City. They subsequently moved their operation to Chicago and became part of the Universal Lamp Co as the Arrow Division. The lamp was produced, ca. early 1920s, in either a gold-painted finish as shown here or in nickel-plated brass as shown earlier in the photos to compete against the Shanklin manufactured Guy's Dropper lamp. As history shows, Universal purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, IL in 1932, and instead of competing with the Guy's Dropper, Universal now owned the rights to the lamp. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 84-85) slides/Arrow Gilt II Bottom.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy I LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy I LSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy I RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy I RSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy I Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy I Back.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy I Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY I - Brass Buddy, marked PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 USA, bottom marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, ex-Len Gaska collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy II and III lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy I Bottom.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy II LSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy II RSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy II Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy II Back.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy II Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) CHECK OUT THE WILLIAMSON BUDDY PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC ASHMEAD BUDDY II - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find base with no seam on the bottom, complete; ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the water feed control and the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I lamp). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) CHECK OUT THE WILLIAMSON BUDDY PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Ashmead Buddy II Bottom.jpg slides/Williamson Buddy Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Williamson Buddy Patent.JPG slides/Ashmead Buddy III LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy III LSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy III Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy III Front.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy III RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy III RSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy III Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy III Back.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy III Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD BUDDY III - Brass lamp, marked BUDDY PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, hard to find 3-piece base with 100% nickeled reflector (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn and the Buddy as shown here (note the differences in the base of this lamp compared to the Buddy I and II lamps). The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Buddy III Bottom.jpg slides/Ashmead Buddy Base Styles.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD BUDDY LAMP BASES - Shown here are the three bottom styles of Buddy lamps. All have identical markings. The center base with the crimped bottom is identical to the earlier Elkhorn lamp base as the Buddy was introduced and the Elkhorn was phased out of production around 1927. This base was replaced by the two bases on either side which shifted the main seam away from the bottom and to the shoulder area with the threaded top piece. The hard-to-find three-piece base on the left was an attempt by Ashmead to strengthen the bottom by adding a disk that was soldered on from the inside. See Thorpe, Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 165-169. ASHMEAD BUDDY LAMP BASES - Shown here are the three bottom styles of Buddy lamps. All have identical markings. The center base with the crimped bottom is identical to the earlier Elkhorn lamp base as the Buddy was introduced and the Elkhorn was phased out of production around 1927. This base was replaced by the two bases on either side which shifted the main seam away from the bottom and to the shoulder area with the threaded top piece. The hard-to-find three-piece base on the left was an attempt by Ashmead to strengthen the bottom by adding a disk that was soldered on from the inside. See Thorpe, Carbide Light - The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 165-169. slides/Ashmead Buddy Base Styles.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn 1.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn 1.JPG slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Front.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Rside.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Rside.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Back.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Bottom Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN BOTTOM - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN BOTTOM - Brass lamp marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY on bottom, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn Bottom Marking.JPG slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II LSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II Front.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II RSide.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN II - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II Back.jpg slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ASHMEAD ELKHORN II BOTTOM - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) ASHMEAD ELKHORN II BOTTOM - Brass lamp, marked ELKHORN PAT. 12-9-13, 5-3-21 on top, marked MANUF’D BY ASHMEAD MFG CO ASHLAND, KY, on bottom, ca. 1924-26, early hard-to- find double concave reflector, adjustable water feed with knurled wheel and cap braces (The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. marketed two brands of carbide cap lamps, the Elkhorn as shown here and the Buddy. The Elkhorn was their first lamp and produced in both brass and nickel plate and in both a cap and superintendent style lamp. Sometime later, they produced the Buddy lamp. The two lamps were not produced at the same time. The retail price was one dollar with the nickel plate adding an additional 25 cents. The Ashmead Manufacturing Co. was started sometime during World War I with Ben Williamson as president. They bought the Meyer and Philip Stein patent of May 3, 1921 for water feed improvements and incorporated those features into the Elkhorn. Later in 1929, Williamson was awarded patent #1,716,809 for improvements incorporated into the Buddy lamp. Located in Ashland, KY, the company ceased operations in 1933. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 62) slides/Ashmead Elkhorn II Bottom.jpg slides/1917 Universal Lamp Co Ad.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EARLY 1917 UNIVERSAL LAMP COMPANY AD - The early ad was part of a promotional book published by the Pittsburgh Coal Company in 1917 that showed historic photos of its mining operations and included ads from its suppliers. Note the reference to the Auto-Lite Dropper that I suspect did catch the attention of Frank Guy, patentee of the Guy's Dropper. Universal's claim as the largest exclusive lamp maker along with the New York address are interesting as well. EARLY 1917 UNIVERSAL LAMP COMPANY AD - The early ad was part of a promotional book published by the Pittsburgh Coal Company in 1917 that showed historic photos of its mining operations and included ads from its suppliers. Note the reference to the Auto-Lite Dropper that I suspect did catch the attention of Frank Guy, patentee of the Guy's Dropper. Universal's claim as the largest exclusive lamp maker along with the New York address are interesting as well. slides/1917 Universal Lamp Co Ad.jpg slides/AutoLite Early LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE WITH SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early brass AutoLite lamp ca. 1917-20, plain top, double-banded bottom, set-screw reflector, marked on top AUTO LITE REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE PATENTS PENDING with ON and OFF in small letters, no marking on base, complete with hook and wire cap braces (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE WITH SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early brass AutoLite lamp ca. 1917-20, plain top, double-banded bottom, set-screw reflector, marked on top AUTO LITE REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE PATENTS PENDING with ON and OFF in small letters, no marking on base, complete with hook and wire cap braces (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Early LSide.JPG slides/AutoLite Early RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE WITH SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early brass AutoLite lamp ca. 1917-20, plain top, double-banded bottom, set-screw reflector, marked on top AUTO LITE REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE PATENTS PENDING with ON and OFF in small letters, no marking on base, complete with hook and wire cap braces (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE WITH SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early brass AutoLite lamp ca. 1917-20, plain top, double-banded bottom, set-screw reflector, marked on top AUTO LITE REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE PATENTS PENDING with ON and OFF in small letters, no marking on base, complete with hook and wire cap braces (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Early RSide.JPG slides/AutoLite Early Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE BOTTOM WITH SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early brass AutoLite lamp ca. 1917-20, plain top, double-banded bottom, set-screw reflector, marked on top AUTO LITE REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE PATENTS PENDING with ON and OFF in small letters, no marking on base, complete with hook and wire cap braces (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE BOTTOM WITH SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early brass AutoLite lamp ca. 1917-20, plain top, double-banded bottom, set-screw reflector, marked on top AUTO LITE REG. U.S. PAT. OFFICE PATENTS PENDING with ON and OFF in small letters, no marking on base, complete with hook and wire cap braces (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Early Bottom.JPG slides/Universal Lamp Ad 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. AD FOR AUTOLITE LAMPS - Ad in 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue for Auto-Lite lamps UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. AD FOR AUTOLITE LAMPS - Ad in 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue for Auto-Lite lamps slides/Universal Lamp Ad 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue.JPG slides/AutoLite.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRASS AUTOLITE - Brass AutoLite, NOS in box, with cap braces and bumper guard (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) CHECK OUT THE SHERMAN AUTOLITE DESIGN PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC BRASS AUTOLITE - Brass AutoLite, NOS in box, with cap braces and bumper guard (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) CHECK OUT THE SHERMAN AUTOLITE DESIGN PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/AutoLite.JPG slides/Sherman AutoLite Design Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Sherman AutoLite Design Patent.JPG slides/AutoLite NP RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP RSide.JPG slides/AutoLite NP LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP LSide.JPG slides/AutoLite NP Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP Back.JPG slides/AutoLite NP Top.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP Top.JPG slides/AutoLite NP Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP - Somewhat hard-to-find nickel plated brass cap lamp, early version of modern Auto-Lite, Auto-Lite model #306, 3-lines of writing on top, marked with ON OFF, AUTO LITE, REG US PAT OFFICE, UNIVERSAL LAMP CO CHICAGO USA, ca. 1925, base unmarked with Bull Dog Grip, follows Sherman’s 1924 design patent shown in previous pic (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP Bottom.JPG slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector RSide.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector LSide.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector Back.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE NP SET SCREW REFLECTOR - Early 1920s nickel-plated AutoLite with unbraced set screw reflector, kinked waterfeed lever, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite NP Set Screw Reflector Bottom.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector LSide.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector RSide.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector Back.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) SEE RECKER'S CAPTIVE NUT PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC AUTOLITE NP CAPTIVE NUT REFLECTOR - Rare nickel-plated brass AutoLite cap lamp, ca. 1923, early 2 1/2 in. reflector with an attached swivelling captive nut to secure it to threaded burner tube, notched reflector brace permanently attached to the lamp top, captive nut reflector patented by Adolph C. Recker as patent No. 1,513,068 awarded on Oct. 28, 1924 and assigned to the Chase Co. of Waterbury, CT who was the most likely manufacturer of the lamp for Universal, unmarked bottom, top marked AUTO LITE REG US PAT OFFICE UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A. (This lamp is one of two reported NP captive nut lamps known; the other known lamp has a smaller diameter, deeper dish captive nut reflector; obtained from my good Alaska friend Neil Tysver; see Thorpe Carbide Light pp 82-83) SEE RECKER'S CAPTIVE NUT PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector Bottom.jpg slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE CAPTIVE NUT PATENT FILED ON JUNE 26, 1923 AND AWARDED TO ADOLPH C. RECKER OF OAKVILLE, CT ON OCT. 28, 1924 AUTOLITE CAPTIVE NUT PATENT FILED ON JUNE 26, 1923 AND AWARDED TO ADOLPH C. RECKER OF OAKVILLE, CT ON OCT. 28, 1924 slides/AutoLite NP Captive Nut Reflector Patent.jpg slides/AutoLite Incuse LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Incuse LSide.jpg slides/AutoLite Incuse RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Incuse RSide.jpg slides/AutoLite Incuse Top.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Incuse Top.jpg slides/AutoLite Incuse Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Incuse Back.jpg slides/AutoLite Incuse Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) AUTOLITE INCUSED MARKING - Rare brass early AutoLite cap lamp with incused marking on top TRADE MARK AUTO LITE PAT. APPLIED FOR REG.U.S. PAT.OFF. UNIVERSAL LAMP CO. with early set screw 2 in. NP reflector, early lamp that predates addition of cap braces and raised on/off dot on top of later versions, double-ringed base without marking on bottom, unfired condition, ex-Doc Kraft collection (The distinctive shape of Auto-Lite lamps with the concave, urn-shaped top remained fairly constant over the life of the lamp's production. The Universal Lamp Company was organized in 1913 by Jacob S. Sherman to produce his Auto-Lite carbide lamps. Sherman first lamp patent was filed in 1914 and awarded as #1,167,942 on Jan. 11, 1916 that would identify the pronounced crown top and concave, urn-shaped design of all Auto-Lite lamp tops for the length of manufacture. By 1918, Sherman had moved the company from Staunton, IL to Chicago. The company continued to expand its product line and in 1933, it purchased the Shanklin Manufacturing Co. and its Springfield, IL plant. An integration of the Auto-Lite and Guy's Dropper lamp design features soon followed. Jacob S. Sherman was also the founder of the Park Sherman Company in Springfield, IL. The company sold miner's supplies (miner's cap lamps, match cases, etc.) and later specialized in things like coin banks and smoking accessories (lighters, cigarette cases, etc). The relationship between Universal Lamp Company and Park Sherman is not altogether clear, but Sherman founded both and operated both. Universal continued to manufacture carbide lamps at the Springfield plant until 1960 when the carbide lamp products were discontinued. Likewise, the Park Sherman Company operated out of Springfield until 1960 when it was sold to a New Jersey company. During the 1913-1960 span of Auto-Lite's cap lamp life, the company produced at least six top design styles, four bottom styles, six cap mounting hooks, three water valve variations, three different water doors, two gas tube variations, at least nine top markings, and at least seven different bottom markings. That's a lot of combinations for a cap lamp that maintained its distinctive looks over those 47 years. Although they produced mainly cap lamps, Auto-Lite did manufacture an 8-hour hand lamp marked Big Boy in combinations of brass and steel and with two different bail designs. The Springfield plant of Universal Lamp Co. has claimed that it produced over 9,000,000 carbide lamps during its operations! See Poh's Miner's Flame Light Book, pp 499-506) slides/AutoLite Incuse Bottom.jpg slides/Simmons Baldwin Ad 1914 Engineering and Mining Journal.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JOHN SIMMONS CO AD - Ad on the front page of the 1914 Engineering and Mining Journal for the Baldwin lamps manufactured by the John Simmons Co. JOHN SIMMONS CO AD - Ad on the front page of the 1914 Engineering and Mining Journal for the Baldwin lamps manufactured by the John Simmons Co. slides/Simmons Baldwin Ad 1914 Engineering and Mining Journal.JPG slides/Carbide Lamp Stick Pin.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 CARBIDE LAMP STICK PIN - This stick pin of what appears to be Baldwin pinch waist hat lamp has a carbide lamp that is 9/16 in. tall and is quite unusual. The carbide lamp pin (ca. 1910s) is one of several mining themed stick pins shown in my Miscellaneous Mining Items album. CARBIDE LAMP STICK PIN - This stick pin of what appears to be Baldwin pinch waist hat lamp has a carbide lamp that is 9/16 in. tall and is quite unusual. The carbide lamp pin (ca. 1910s) is one of several mining themed stick pins shown in my Miscellaneous Mining Items album. slides/Carbide Lamp Stick Pin.JPG slides/Baldwin I LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN - Brass Baldwin lamp, with 2 1/4 in. push on reflector, top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PATENT DATES AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom unmarked, early style with wire control; ex-Mike Krystoff collection (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) BALDWIN - Brass Baldwin lamp, with 2 1/4 in. push on reflector, top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PATENT DATES AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom unmarked, early style with wire control; ex-Mike Krystoff collection (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) slides/Baldwin I LSide.JPG slides/Baldwin I RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN - Brass Baldwin lamp, with 2 1/4 in. push on reflector, top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PATENT DATES AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom unmarked, early style with wire control; ex-Mike Krystoff collection (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) BALDWIN - Brass Baldwin lamp, with 2 1/4 in. push on reflector, top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PATENT DATES AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom unmarked, early style with wire control; ex-Mike Krystoff collection (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) slides/Baldwin I RSide.JPG slides/Baldwin I Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN BOTTOM - Brass Baldwin lamp, with 2 in. set-screw reflector, top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PATENT DATES AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom unmarked, early style with wire control; ex-Mike Krystoff collection (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) BALDWIN BOTTOM - Brass Baldwin lamp, with 2 in. set-screw reflector, top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PATENT DATES AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom unmarked, early style with wire control; ex-Mike Krystoff collection (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) slides/Baldwin I Bottom.JPG slides/Simmons Ad 1910 Coal Field Directory.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 SIMMONS AD FOR BALDWIN LAMPS - Ad from the 1910 Coal Field Directory. Ad compliments of my New Mexico friend Paul Kouts. SIMMONS AD FOR BALDWIN LAMPS - Ad from the 1910 Coal Field Directory. Ad compliments of my New Mexico friend Paul Kouts. slides/Simmons Ad 1910 Coal Field Directory.jpg slides/Baldwin II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN WITH DEEP DISH REFLECTOR - Brass Baldwin cap lamp with deep dish reflector and cap braces, marked on top THE BALDWIN LAMP, PAT. AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom marked with “S in diamond JOHN SIMMONS TRADEMARK, complete (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) BALDWIN WITH DEEP DISH REFLECTOR - Brass Baldwin cap lamp with deep dish reflector and cap braces, marked on top THE BALDWIN LAMP, PAT. AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom marked with “S in diamond JOHN SIMMONS TRADEMARK, complete (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) slides/Baldwin II LSide.JPG slides/Baldwin II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN WITH DEEP DISH REFLECTOR - Brass Baldwin cap lamp with deep dish reflector and cap braces, marked on top THE BALDWIN LAMP, PAT. AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom marked with “S in diamond JOHN SIMMONS TRADEMARK, complete (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) BALDWIN WITH DEEP DISH REFLECTOR - Brass Baldwin cap lamp with deep dish reflector and cap braces, marked on top THE BALDWIN LAMP, PAT. AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, bottom marked with “S in diamond JOHN SIMMONS TRADEMARK, complete (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) slides/Baldwin II RSide.JPG slides/Baldwin III.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN WITH DEEP DISH REFLECTOR AND STICK - Brass Baldwin lamp, with deep dish reflector, with Baldwin No. 72 lamp stick 10 in. long (ex-Len Gaska collection), top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PAT. AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, marked bottom TRADE MARK GUARANTEES SATISFACTION JOHN SIMMONS CO., NEW YORK, USA with S TRADE MARK, complete (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) BALDWIN WITH DEEP DISH REFLECTOR AND STICK - Brass Baldwin lamp, with deep dish reflector, with Baldwin No. 72 lamp stick 10 in. long (ex-Len Gaska collection), top marked THE BALDWIN LAMP, PAT. AUG.28, 1900 and MAY 22, 1906, OTHERS PENDING, marked bottom TRADE MARK GUARANTEES SATISFACTION JOHN SIMMONS CO., NEW YORK, USA with S TRADE MARK, complete (Frederic E. Baldwin is generally considered the father of underground acetylene carbide lighting in the U.S. His Full Moon lamp shown elsewhere in the carbide hand lamp photos is considered the first mining carbide lamp. Located in New York City, Baldwin contracted with the John Simmons Co. also of New York City to market and manufacture his lamps. Shortly thereafter, lamps featuring the distinctive inverted conical hour-glass shape that distinguishes Baldwin cap lamps were produced by Simmons. These lamps feature patent dates of 1900 and 1906 stamped in raised letters on the top of many of these lamps but neither applies to the visual shape of the lamp. The Aug. 28, 1900 patent #656,874 by Baldwin applies to fourteen acetylene gas generation features while Baldwin's May 22, 1906 patent #821,580 applied to internal mechanical details. During the next few years the Baldwin/Simmons lamps would enjoy enormous popularity in both the metal mines and the coal mines. The company even boasted in 1913 that 80% of the carbide lamps in use are Baldwin lamps. Baldwin and Simmons continued to produce and market a growing number of cap and superintendent's-style lamp varieties for miners. For whatever reason, Baldwin and Simmons parted in 1913, Baldwin to pursue the Zar lamp development noted elsewhere in the cap lamp photos and Simmons to continue to market both Baldwin and Simmons-branded lamps. The Simmons Co. manufactured its own cap and superintendent lamps marked with the distinctive raised S in a diamond trade mark. Of note is the Pioneer lamp heavily advertised by Simmons around 1917. These lamps were among the last lamps marketed by Simmons as the company merged with the Dewar Co. in the 1919-20 timeframe. See Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, 394-411) slides/Baldwin III.JPG slides/Simmons Baldwin Ad 1915 Colliery Engineer.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 SIMMONS BALDWIN AD - Ad for Baldwin carbide lamps from the 1915 Colliery Engineer SIMMONS BALDWIN AD - Ad for Baldwin carbide lamps from the 1915 Colliery Engineer slides/Simmons Baldwin Ad 1915 Colliery Engineer.JPG slides/Baldwin No. 30 Lamp with Box Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN NO. 30 - Brass Baldwin No. 30 carbide lamp shown with original wooden box with sliding top lid, paper label wraps around box showing an early auto and tire repair on front and advertising the lamp "for Autoists, Campers, Ranchers and Boy Scouts." Interesting that the No. 30 lamp in this box was not noted for miners. The box ends both show the No. 30 Baldwin Carbide Lamp noting "weight fully charged 6 oz. and height 4 1/2 inches." One end shows the price of $3.00. The label back side notes "insure your tools and temper, carry a Baldwin carbide lamp in your car." The graphics and box are a nice addition to the lamp. BALDWIN NO. 30 - Brass Baldwin No. 30 carbide lamp shown with original wooden box with sliding top lid, paper label wraps around box showing an early auto and tire repair on front and advertising the lamp "for Autoists, Campers, Ranchers and Boy Scouts." Interesting that the No. 30 lamp in this box was not noted for miners. The box ends both show the No. 30 Baldwin Carbide Lamp noting "weight fully charged 6 oz. and height 4 1/2 inches." One end shows the price of $3.00. The label back side notes "insure your tools and temper, carry a Baldwin carbide lamp in your car." The graphics and box are a nice addition to the lamp. slides/Baldwin No. 30 Lamp with Box Front.JPG slides/Baldwin No. 30 Lamp with Box Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BALDWIN NO. 30 - Brass Baldwin No. 30 carbide lamp shown with original wooden box with sliding top lid, paper label wraps around box showing an early auto and tire repair on front and advertising the lamp "for Autoists, Campers, Ranchers and Boy Scouts." Interesting that the No. 30 lamp in this box was not noted for miners. The box ends both show the No. 30 Baldwin Carbide Lamp noting "weight fully charged 6 oz. and height 4 1/2 inches." One end shows the price of $3.00. The label back side notes "insure your tools and temper, carry a Baldwin carbide lamp in your car." The graphics and box are a nice addition to the lamp. BALDWIN NO. 30 - Brass Baldwin No. 30 carbide lamp shown with original wooden box with sliding top lid, paper label wraps around box showing an early auto and tire repair on front and advertising the lamp "for Autoists, Campers, Ranchers and Boy Scouts." Interesting that the No. 30 lamp in this box was not noted for miners. The box ends both show the No. 30 Baldwin Carbide Lamp noting "weight fully charged 6 oz. and height 4 1/2 inches." One end shows the price of $3.00. The label back side notes "insure your tools and temper, carry a Baldwin carbide lamp in your car." The graphics and box are a nice addition to the lamp. slides/Baldwin No. 30 Lamp with Box Back.JPG slides/Belcro.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BELCRO NO. 1 - Nickel plated BELCRO NO. 1 cap lamp, 3 ½ in. tall, 2 ¼ in. base dia, 3 in. dia reflector with a round coined-edge reflector nut (I've seen other Belcro lamps with a hex nut on the reflector so I'm not sure if this is original or a mod), marked in raised letters on top BELCRO NO. 1, with hook and cap braces; ex-Henry Pohs’ collection (lamp photo in Pohs’ book pg 517) COLLECTION NOTE - WHILE THE FOCUS OF MY LAMP COLLECTION IS ON US MADE LAMPS, I OCCASIONALLY MAKE AN EXCEPTION. THE BRITISH MADE BELCRO IS JUST SUCH AN EXCEPTION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF ITS PROVENANCE FROM THE HENRY POHS COLLECTION. THE VIEWER WILL FIND OTHER EXCEPTIONS SUCH AS THE R.A. AUSTRALIAN OIL WICK, AUSTRALIAN SPIDER CANDLESTICK, AND A COUPLE OTHERS. ENJOY THE SITE. BELCRO NO. 1 - Nickel plated BELCRO NO. 1 cap lamp, 3 ½ in. tall, 2 ¼ in. base dia, 3 in. dia reflector with a round coined-edge reflector nut (I've seen other Belcro lamps with a hex nut on the reflector so I'm not sure if this is original or a mod), marked in raised letters on top BELCRO NO. 1, with hook and cap braces; ex-Henry Pohs’ collection (lamp photo in Pohs’ book pg 517) COLLECTION NOTE - WHILE THE FOCUS OF MY LAMP COLLECTION IS ON US MADE LAMPS, I OCCASIONALLY MAKE AN EXCEPTION. THE BRITISH MADE BELCRO IS JUST SUCH AN EXCEPTION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF ITS PROVENANCE FROM THE HENRY POHS COLLECTION. THE VIEWER WILL FIND OTHER EXCEPTIONS SUCH AS THE R.A. AUSTRALIAN OIL WICK, AUSTRALIAN SPIDER CANDLESTICK, AND A COUPLE OTHERS. ENJOY THE SITE. slides/Belcro.JPG slides/Belcro Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BELCRO NO. 1 - Nickel plated BELCRO NO. 1 cap lamp, 3 ½ in. tall, 2 ¼ in. base dia, 3 in. dia reflector with a round coined-edge reflector nut (I've seen other Belcro lamps with a hex nut on the reflector so I'm not sure if this is original or a mod), marked in raised letters on top BELCRO NO. 1, with hook and cap braces; ex-Henry Pohs’ collection (lamp photo in Pohs’ book pg 517) COLLECTION NOTE - WHILE THE FOCUS OF MY LAMP COLLECTION IS ON US MADE LAMPS, I OCCASIONALLY MAKE AN EXCEPTION. THE BRITISH MADE BELCRO IS JUST SUCH AN EXCEPTION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF ITS PROVENANCE FROM THE HENRY POHS COLLECTION. THE VIEWER WILL FIND OTHER EXCEPTIONS SUCH AS THE R.A. AUSTRALIAN OIL WICK, AUSTRALIAN SPIDER CANDLESTICK, AND A COUPLE OTHERS. ENJOY THE SITE. BELCRO NO. 1 - Nickel plated BELCRO NO. 1 cap lamp, 3 ½ in. tall, 2 ¼ in. base dia, 3 in. dia reflector with a round coined-edge reflector nut (I've seen other Belcro lamps with a hex nut on the reflector so I'm not sure if this is original or a mod), marked in raised letters on top BELCRO NO. 1, with hook and cap braces; ex-Henry Pohs’ collection (lamp photo in Pohs’ book pg 517) COLLECTION NOTE - WHILE THE FOCUS OF MY LAMP COLLECTION IS ON US MADE LAMPS, I OCCASIONALLY MAKE AN EXCEPTION. THE BRITISH MADE BELCRO IS JUST SUCH AN EXCEPTION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF ITS PROVENANCE FROM THE HENRY POHS COLLECTION. THE VIEWER WILL FIND OTHER EXCEPTIONS SUCH AS THE R.A. AUSTRALIAN OIL WICK, AUSTRALIAN SPIDER CANDLESTICK, AND A COUPLE OTHERS. ENJOY THE SITE. slides/Belcro Back.JPG slides/Belcro Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BELCRO NO. 1 BOTTOM - Nickel plated BELCRO NO. 1 cap lamp, 3 ½ in. tall, 2 ¼ in. base dia, 3 in. dia reflector with a round coined-edge reflector nut (I've seen other Belcro lamps with a hex nut on the reflector so I'm not sure if this is original or a mod), marked in raised letters on top BELCRO NO. 1, with hook and cap braces; ex-Henry Pohs’ collection (lamp photo in Pohs’ book pg 517) COLLECTION NOTE - WHILE THE FOCUS OF MY LAMP COLLECTION IS ON US MADE LAMPS, I OCCASIONALLY MAKE AN EXCEPTION. THE BRITISH MADE BELCRO IS JUST SUCH AN EXCEPTION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF ITS PROVENANCE FROM THE HENRY POHS COLLECTION. THE VIEWER WILL FIND OTHER EXCEPTIONS SUCH AS THE R.A. AUSTRALIAN OIL WICK, AUSTRALIAN SPIDER CANDLESTICK, AND A COUPLE OTHERS. ENJOY THE SITE. BELCRO NO. 1 BOTTOM - Nickel plated BELCRO NO. 1 cap lamp, 3 ½ in. tall, 2 ¼ in. base dia, 3 in. dia reflector with a round coined-edge reflector nut (I've seen other Belcro lamps with a hex nut on the reflector so I'm not sure if this is original or a mod), marked in raised letters on top BELCRO NO. 1, with hook and cap braces; ex-Henry Pohs’ collection (lamp photo in Pohs’ book pg 517) COLLECTION NOTE - WHILE THE FOCUS OF MY LAMP COLLECTION IS ON US MADE LAMPS, I OCCASIONALLY MAKE AN EXCEPTION. THE BRITISH MADE BELCRO IS JUST SUCH AN EXCEPTION, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF ITS PROVENANCE FROM THE HENRY POHS COLLECTION. THE VIEWER WILL FIND OTHER EXCEPTIONS SUCH AS THE R.A. AUSTRALIAN OIL WICK, AUSTRALIAN SPIDER CANDLESTICK, AND A COUPLE OTHERS. ENJOY THE SITE. slides/Belcro Bottom.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Ad in July 1919 Acetylene Journal.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT AD - This ad in the July 1919 edition (Vol. XXI, No. 1) of the Acetylene Journal notes the lamp had stood the test of mining along with several other activities. BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT AD - This ad in the July 1919 edition (Vol. XXI, No. 1) of the Acetylene Journal notes the lamp had stood the test of mining along with several other activities. slides/Brilliant Search Light Ad in July 1919 Acetylene Journal.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Assemby with Box.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) SEE THE KRUSCHKE PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) SEE THE KRUSCHKE PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Brilliant Search Light Assemby with Box.JPG slides/Kruschke Hunter's Lamp Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Kruschke Hunter's Lamp Patent.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Generator Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Generator Front.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Generator Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Generator Back.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Bottom Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Bottom Marking.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Open.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition, the cap unit comes with a 3 5/8 in. convex lens in a single lens option and both a 3 5/8 in. convex lens and a 2 1/2 in. bulls-eye lens in a hinged door in the double lens option, both have a darkening lens cover door (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition, the cap unit comes with a 3 5/8 in. convex lens in a single lens option and both a 3 5/8 in. convex lens and a 2 1/2 in. bulls-eye lens in a hinged door in the double lens option, both have a darkening lens cover door (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Open.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Lens Closed.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition, the cap unit comes with a 3 5/8 in. convex lens in a single lens option and both a 3 5/8 in. convex lens and a 2 1/2 in. bulls-eye lens in a hinged door in the double lens option, both have a darkening lens cover door (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition, the cap unit comes with a 3 5/8 in. convex lens in a single lens option and both a 3 5/8 in. convex lens and a 2 1/2 in. bulls-eye lens in a hinged door in the double lens option, both have a darkening lens cover door (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Lens Closed.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Back with Head Strap.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Back with Head Strap.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Head Lamp Marking.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Second Burner Tip and Holder.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition, this envelope of parts was included in the NOS box with the lamp, it includes a spare candle flame burner tip and metal bushing along with the burner base, the flat flame burner tip on the lamp has an advertised burn time of 5 hours on one 4 oz. filling of carbide and the spare candle flame tip has a burn time of 9 hours on one filling (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition, this envelope of parts was included in the NOS box with the lamp, it includes a spare candle flame burner tip and metal bushing along with the burner base, the flat flame burner tip on the lamp has an advertised burn time of 5 hours on one 4 oz. filling of carbide and the spare candle flame tip has a burn time of 9 hours on one filling (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Second Burner Tip and Holder.JPG slides/Brilliant Search Light Inside.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) BRILLIANT SEARCH LIGHT - Brilliant Search Light Style 3, double lens with flat flame burner tip, belt generator, cap burner unit, black finish, pictured in Pohs, Miner's Flame Light Book, p 414, NOS condition (The Brilliant Search Light was one of the earliest portable acetylene lamps to come onto the US market. Manufactured by Rudolph C. Kruschke of Duluth, MN, he patented his lamp in 1902 (patent #711,871 on October 21, 1902) as one of the first waist-belt generator, head-burner-reflector lamps. Although advertised to the outdoors community as early as 1899, the lamp had use in the mines in the early 1900s but with very limited acceptance. The Brilliant Search Light was being advertised in the September 1903 edition of the Acetylene Journal for use in the mines. On April 14, 1914 Kruschke was awarded a letter patent (#1,093,339) for improvements to the mining headlight for his Brilliant Search Light. The company moved from Duluth, MN to Chicago around 1919 and continued to produce the lamps until the late 1930s advertising in many periodicals as well as the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 68 and 2 Brilliant Search Light catalogues in my catalogue section) slides/Brilliant Search Light Inside.JPG slides/Harker Bull Dog Ad in Nov 1917 Mining Congress Journal.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 AD FOR HARKER AMERICAN BULL DOG NO. 150 IN NOV. 1917 MINING CONGRESS JOURNAL AD FOR HARKER AMERICAN BULL DOG NO. 150 IN NOV. 1917 MINING CONGRESS JOURNAL slides/Harker Bull Dog Ad in Nov 1917 Mining Congress Journal.jpg slides/Brite-Lite American Bulldog LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Brite-Lite American Bulldog LSide.JPG slides/Brite-Lite American Bulldog RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Brite-Lite American Bulldog RSide.JPG slides/Brite-Lite American Bulldog Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Brite-Lite American Bulldog Back.JPG slides/Harker Brite-Lite American Bulldog Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE-LITE AMERICAN BULL DOG - Brite-Lite American Bull Dog Lamp #150, black painted finish, complete with cap braces and brace lock, manufactured by Harker Mfg. Co., Cincinnati, OH, marked on top with OFF and ON, ca. 1917, no other markings, has top water control lever and oval water door; ex-Leo Stambaugh and ex-Steve Rush collections, pictured on pg. 427 in Poh’s book [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite-Lite American Bulldog Bottom.jpg slides/Daylight LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight LSide.JPG slides/Daylight RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight RSide.JPG slides/Daylight Top.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight Top.JPG slides/Daylight Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight Back.JPG slides/Daylight Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT BOTTOM - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT BOTTOM - Unfired Daylight brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, 3 ring base, 2 1/2 in. chrome reflector, including Guy’s Dropper style bent wire water lever, oval water door, made by Belcro Ltd. of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd.; acquired from my good Alaskan friend Neil Tysver (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown here) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. It is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight Bottom.JPG slides/Belcro Daylight Instructions.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 Section of lamp box showing Daylight lamp and noting that manufacturer is Belcro Limited, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England (special thanks to Neil Tysver for use of pic from his collection) Section of lamp box showing Daylight lamp and noting that manufacturer is Belcro Limited, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England (special thanks to Neil Tysver for use of pic from his collection) slides/Belcro Daylight Instructions.jpg slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace LSide.JPG slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace Front.JPG slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace RSide.JPG slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace Back.JPG slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) DAYLIGHT P&H - Brass lamp, marked DAYLIGHT on top, complete with cap braces, ribbed base, 2 1/2 in. screw on reflector, round water door with tab and cotter pinned attachment, door marked P&H LTD MADE IN ENGLAND BIRMINGHAM, bottom marked P&H LTD BIRMINGHAM ENGLAND PATENTS PENDING NO. 72, made by Powell & Hanmer Ltd. a division of Joseph Lucas Ltd., ex-Neil Tysver collection, top NOS condition (The Daylight is a British lamp made by at least two different companies. One lamp resembling the US made Autolite was manufactured by Belcro Limited of Newcastle Upon Tyne and marketed by Dargue Acetylene Gas Co. Ltd. It came in an early version with a Guy's Dropper bent wire water lever with an oval water door (as shown elsewhere in my cap lamp pics) or a later version Autolite style water lever with a round water door. Both versions are well made of heavy brass and include a bottom with two rings of rope-type knurling. A second lamp marked Daylight as shown here was manufactured by Powell and Hanmer Limited, Chester Street, Birmingham, England and resembles a vertical style Justrite cap lamp. The lamp was advertised as a model No. 72 and came with two reflector options as well as a round hook or spade mount. Powell and Hanmer was established in Birmingham in 1893 and was an early manufacturer of acetylene lamps for bicycles and motor cycles. In 1929, P&H was purchase by Joseph Lucas Ltd. of Great King Street, Birmingham for £500,000. At the time, P&H was Lucas’ principal competitor in non-electrical equipment for cycles and motor cycles. The P&H Daylight lamp is made of lacquered heavy gauge brass and is equipped with a screw on reflector. The standard reflector is 2 1/2 in. dia. but an optional 4 in. dia. reflector was also available. It’s interesting to note that that two different water doors were available on P&H Daylight lamps. As shown, the spade mount lamp has a circular water door while the hook mount lamp with cap braces has a tabbed door and a different attachment to the lamp top. Based on undated P&H advertising for the No. 72 lamp that claims the company had “over 40 years of experience making acetylene lamps,” it is thought the Powell and Hanmer cap lamps were manufactured in the late 1930s to early 1940s. See Thorpe and Johnson, Eureka #6, pp 26-28 and Neil Tysver, private communications) slides/Daylight P&H Cap Brace Bottom.JPG slides/Daylight P&H Spare Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 P&H DAYLIGHT SPARE BOTTOM WITH LID P&H DAYLIGHT SPARE BOTTOM WITH LID slides/Daylight P&H Spare Bottom.JPG slides/Daylight P&H Spare Bottom Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 P&H DAYLIGHT SPARE BOTTOM MARKING P&H DAYLIGHT SPARE BOTTOM MARKING slides/Daylight P&H Spare Bottom Marking.JPG slides/Defender Beaded LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BEADED DEFENDER NP - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) BEADED DEFENDER NP - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) slides/Defender Beaded LSide.JPG slides/Defender Beaded RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BEADED DEFENDER NP - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) BEADED DEFENDER NP - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) slides/Defender Beaded RSide.JPG slides/Defender Beaded Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BEADED DEFENDER NP - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) BEADED DEFENDER NP - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) slides/Defender Beaded Back.JPG slides/Defender Beaded Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 BEADED DEFENDER NP BOTTOM - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) BEADED DEFENDER NP BOTTOM - Nickel-plated beaded Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Dave Thorpe and ex-Bob Schroth collections (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp shown here in nickel-plated brass that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) slides/Defender Beaded Bottom.JPG slides/Defender Ribbed.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 RIBBED DEFENDER BRASS - Hard to find brass ribbed Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, back of reflector marked PAT APLD FOR MADE IN USA in ring around sparker, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping (shown here is the Defender in brass with vertical striping) and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) RIBBED DEFENDER BRASS - Hard to find brass ribbed Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, back of reflector marked PAT APLD FOR MADE IN USA in ring around sparker, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping (shown here is the Defender in brass with vertical striping) and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) slides/Defender Ribbed.JPG slides/Defender Ribbed Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 RIBBED DEFENDER BRASS BOTTOM - Hard to find brass ribbed Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, back of reflector marked PAT APLD FOR MADE IN USA in ring around sparker, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping (shown here is the Defender in brass with vertical striping) and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) CHECK OUT THE FRISBIE DESIGN PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC RIBBED DEFENDER BRASS BOTTOM - Hard to find brass ribbed Defender cap lamp with strap cap braces, marked on top TRADEMARK DEFENDER PAT. 2.1.21, OTHERS PEND., MADE IN USA, RD 68155, POLYGON FEED, PAT 2.2.22, bottom marked DEC.30,19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, brace marked BRACKET PAT APLD FOR, back of reflector marked PAT APLD FOR MADE IN USA in ring around sparker, three piece water door, unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Justrite Victor and its sister lamps, the Defender and X-Ray, have distinctive ornamental designs and probably have more markings on the various lamp parts than any other carbide lamp. After Augie Hansen, chief designer at Justrite, left the company in 1920 to pursue his Drylite and Force Feed lamps, William J. Frisbie took his place at Justrite. He filed a design patent #57,037 on May 22, 1920 on a new lamp that would be produced by Justrite with the Victor name. The patent was granted on Feb 1, 1921 and lamps manufactured after that date are marked with this patent date. Justrite made the Victor lamp prior to the patent award and these earlier lamps are marked with "Patent Appl'd For." Frisbie filed additional patents for features that were incorporated in the Victor lamps including the polygon water feed, side brace attachment, reflector brace and improved felt retainer among others. In April 1922, Justrite introduced a sister lamp that replaced the vertical striping on the lamp body with raised dots calling it the Defender. Both lamps were available in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Soon thereafter, Justrite once again retooled their production to market a lamp called the X-Ray, not to be confused by an earlier Justrite lamp named X-Ray that included a square reflector brace. All three lamps can be found with both vertical striping (shown here is the Defender in brass with vertical striping) and dots on the tanks and in both brass and nickel-plated brass. Except for the markings on top, all three lamps are essentially the same. One can't help but wonder why Justrite marketed these new brand names at a time when their Justrite trademarked lamps were enjoying popularity and substantial success within the mining community. See Puhl, Mining Artifact Collector #4, pp 3-10) CHECK OUT THE FRISBIE DESIGN PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Defender Ribbed Bottom.JPG slides/Frisbie Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Frisbie Patent.JPG slides/Ever Ready Ad Engineering Journal March 7 1914.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER READY LAMP AD - Ad from the 1914 Engineering Journal for the Ever Ready lamp, with the Trouble Left Out... EVER READY LAMP AD - Ad from the 1914 Engineering Journal for the Ever Ready lamp, with the Trouble Left Out... slides/Ever Ready Ad Engineering Journal March 7 1914.jpg slides/Ever Ready LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Ever Ready LSide.JPG slides/Ever Ready Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Ever Ready Front.JPG slides/Ever Ready RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Ever Ready RSide.JPG slides/Ever Ready Side.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Ever Ready Side.JPG slides/Ever Ready Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Ever Ready Back.JPG slides/Ever Ready pic3.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Ever Ready pic3.JPG slides/Ever Ready pic5.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] CHECK OUT THE HOPPE EVER READY DESIGN PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC EVER-READY - Hard to find brass lamp, marked on base bottom EVER-READY PAT. PEND., manufactured by The Charles Hoppe Co., Cincinnati, OH, ca. 1914, unfired condition (patent #1,094,902 to C. Hoppe, Apr. 28, 1914; Ever-Ready is taller and more slender than earlier Snell lamp) [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready as shown here. The unique spherical top and graceful lines of the Ever-Ready make it a popular and highly sought lamp. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] CHECK OUT THE HOPPE EVER READY DESIGN PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Ever Ready pic5.jpg slides/Hoppe Ever Ready Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hoppe Ever Ready Patent.JPG slides/Fulton XRay LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 FULTON XRAY - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) FULTON XRAY - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) slides/Fulton XRay LSide.JPG slides/Fulton XRay RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 FULTON XRAY - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) FULTON XRAY - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) slides/Fulton XRay RSide.JPG slides/Fulton XRay pic2.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 FULTON XRAY BOTTOM - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) FULTON XRAY BOTTOM - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) slides/Fulton XRay pic2.JPG slides/Fulton XRay Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 FULTON XRAY BOTTOM - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) FULTON XRAY BOTTOM - Hard to find special-edition brass X-Ray lamp, stamped on bottom EM HAW CO for Emmons Hawkins Hardware Co., FULTON and HUNTINGTON, WV, ca. 1919-1920 [Justrite Mfg. Co. sold two special-edition cap lamps to other companies complete with each company's own private-label stamping. These lamps are quite hard to find. This "Fulton" lamp is one of the private-label stampings for two businesses, the Emmons-Hawkins Hardware Co. of Huntington, WV and the Fulton Tool Works. Except for the bottom stamping, this lamp is identical to Justrite's "X-Ray" cap lamp, produced from around 1918 through the early 1920s. EM Haw Co. was a large wholesale hardware supplier in business continuously from 1884 through 1934. See Lackey and Thorpe, Mining Artifact Collector #11, p 4) slides/Fulton XRay Bottom.jpg slides/Gem Ad 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM AD - Ad for Gem Manufacturing Company showing Gem lamp in 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue GEM AD - Ad for Gem Manufacturing Company showing Gem lamp in 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue slides/Gem Ad 1926 Keystone Mining Catalogue.jpg slides/Gem Brass RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem Brass RSide.jpg slides/Gem Brass Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem Brass Front.jpg slides/Gem Brass LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem Brass LSide.jpg slides/Gem Brass Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem Brass Back.jpg slides/Gem Brass Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM BRASS - Brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition; ex-Bob Schroth collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem Brass Bottom.jpg slides/Gem NP RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem NP RSide.jpg slides/Gem NP Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem NP Front.jpg slides/Gem NP LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem NP LSide.jpg slides/Gem NP Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem NP Back.jpg slides/Gem NP Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEM NP - Nickel plated brass lamp marked GEM in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 3.5 in. to water door, 2 ½ in dia. brass reflector, mfg. by Grier Bros., unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name as shown here was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Gem NP Bottom.jpg slides/Grier Bros Horizontal LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros Horizontal LSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros Horizontal RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros Horizontal RSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros Horizontal Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros Horizontal Back.jpg slides/Grier Bros Horizontal Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) HORIZONTAL GRIER - Brass horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH PA. around small star, cap braces, note miner ingenuity for burner tip with a 22 short shell casing (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros Horizontal Bottom.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) slides/Grier Horizontal NP LSide.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) slides/Grier Horizontal NP Front.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) slides/Grier Horizontal NP RSide.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) slides/Grier Horizontal NP Marking.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) slides/Grier Horizontal NP Back.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) HORIZONTAL GRIER NP - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early bottom seamed base, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) slides/Grier Horizontal NP Bottom.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP Early Spare Base.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP SPARE BASE - NP spare bottom for Grier Bros. NP horizontal cap lamp, marked PATENTED APR. 2, 1912 Nov. 15, 1921 on bottom, with lid HORIZONTAL GRIER NP SPARE BASE - NP spare bottom for Grier Bros. NP horizontal cap lamp, marked PATENTED APR. 2, 1912 Nov. 15, 1921 on bottom, with lid slides/Grier Horizontal NP Early Spare Base.jpg slides/Grier Horizontal NP with Early Base and Spare.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HORIZONTAL GRIER NP WITH EARLY BASE AND SPARE - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early base with spare, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) HORIZONTAL GRIER NP WITH EARLY BASE AND SPARE - Rare nickel plated horizontal Grier Bros. lamp, marked on side GRIER BROS. PITTSBURGH, PA. around small star, early base with spare, wire water feed, complete with cap braces, ca. 1920-22 (This horizontal Grier Bros. cap lamp is one of the late style horizontal lamps described by Dave Thorpe. The nickel plated variety is quite rare. The late style lamps were first offered by Grier in 1918 but by 1922, the horizontal style lamps were no longer being advertised. See Thorpe, Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines, pp 182-189) slides/Grier Horizontal NP with Early Base and Spare.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T I LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T I LSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T I RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T I RSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T I Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T I Back.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T I Slip On Reflector.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T I Slip On Reflector.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T I Top Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T I Top Marking.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T I Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) SEE THE JACOBSON AND TURJA PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC GRIER WITH SPADE MOUNT AND J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with narrow blade, slip-on reflector with swing latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921 (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) SEE THE JACOBSON AND TURJA PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Grier Bros J&T I Bottom.jpg slides/Jacobson & Turja Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Jacobson & Turja Patent.JPG slides/Grier Bros J&T II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912 and NOV 15, 1921; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T II LSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912, NOV 15, 1921 and May 15,1923; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912, NOV 15, 1921 and May 15,1923; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T II RSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T II Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912, NOV 15, 1921 and May 15,1923; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912, NOV 15, 1921 and May 15,1923; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T II Back.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T II Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912, NOV 15, 1921 and May 15,1923; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J & T - Brass Grier Bros lamp with cap braces, soldered slip-on reflector mod and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, marked on bottom PATENTED APR 2, 1912, NOV 15, 1921 and May 15,1923; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T II Bottom.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on RSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on Front.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on LSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on Back.jpg slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER WITH J&T AND LOC-ON REFLECTOR - Brass Grier Bros lamp with wire hook, Loc-on 2 1/4 in. reflector with latch and J & T (Jacobson and Turja) wire burner tip cleaner, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, bottom marked PATENTED APR. 2,1912, NOV. 15, 1921, rare condition in that lamp is totally free of stress cracks, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros J&T Loc-on Bottom.jpg slides/Grier Bros. Ad 1922 Williams Hardware Co. Catalogue.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER BROS. LAMP NO. 96 - Ad from the 1922 Williams Hardware Co. catalogue for the Grier Bros. No. 96 lamp GRIER BROS. LAMP NO. 96 - Ad from the 1922 Williams Hardware Co. catalogue for the Grier Bros. No. 96 lamp slides/Grier Bros. Ad 1922 Williams Hardware Co. Catalogue.JPG slides/Grier Bros RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros RSide.JPG slides/Grier Bros LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros LSide.jpg slides/Grier Bros Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros Back.jpg slides/Grier Bros Top Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros Top Marking.jpg slides/Grier Bros Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GRIER - Grier Bros. lamp, marked on top GRIER BROS. PITTSBURG, PA, with cap braces, complete; ex-Len Gaska collection (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Bros Bottom.jpg slides/Grier Bros. Ad I in 1923 Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition).html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER BROS. AD IN 1923 KEYSTONE MINING CATALOGUE - This ad in the 1923 Keystone Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition) is the last year that Grier Bros. advertised in the Keystone Catalogues. Subsequent years through 1926 featured ads for Gem Manufacturing who purchased Grier Bros. and their remaining stock of lamps. The Grier Gee Bee lamps shown in the following pics were the best lamps manufactured by Grier but they were never advertised by Grier Bros. They were marketed by Gem after the Grier purchase. GRIER BROS. AD IN 1923 KEYSTONE MINING CATALOGUE - This ad in the 1923 Keystone Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition) is the last year that Grier Bros. advertised in the Keystone Catalogues. Subsequent years through 1926 featured ads for Gem Manufacturing who purchased Grier Bros. and their remaining stock of lamps. The Grier Gee Bee lamps shown in the following pics were the best lamps manufactured by Grier but they were never advertised by Grier Bros. They were marketed by Gem after the Grier purchase. slides/Grier Bros. Ad I in 1923 Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition).jpg slides/Grier Bros. Ad II in 1923 Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition).html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GRIER BROS. AD IN 1923 KEYSTONE MINING CATALOGUE - This ad in the 1923 Keystone Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition) is the last year that Grier Bros. advertised in the Keystone Catalogues. Subsequent years through 1926 featured ads for Gem Manufacturing who purchased Grier Bros. and their remaining stock of lamps. The Grier Gee Bee lamps shown in the following pics were the best lamps manufactured by Grier but they were never advertised by Grier Bros. They were marketed by Gem after the Grier purchase. GRIER BROS. AD IN 1923 KEYSTONE MINING CATALOGUE - This ad in the 1923 Keystone Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition) is the last year that Grier Bros. advertised in the Keystone Catalogues. Subsequent years through 1926 featured ads for Gem Manufacturing who purchased Grier Bros. and their remaining stock of lamps. The Grier Gee Bee lamps shown in the following pics were the best lamps manufactured by Grier but they were never advertised by Grier Bros. They were marketed by Gem after the Grier purchase. slides/Grier Bros. Ad II in 1923 Mining Catalogue (Coal Edition).jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee I RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee I RSide.jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee I LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee I LSide.jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee I Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee I Back.jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee I Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee I Bottom.JPG slides/Grier Gee Bee I & Original Box.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE I - Hard to find brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, with hook and cap braces, 2 1/4 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., bottom marked with Apr 1912, Nov 1921, and May 1923 patent dates, with original box over marked with Gem Manufacturing Co. and instructions in English and 7 other foreign languages; unfired condition (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee I & Original Box.jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee II RSide.jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee II LSide.jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee II Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee II Back.jpg slides/Grier Gee Bee II Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) GEE BEE II - Scarce brass lamp marked GRIER GEE BEE in raised letters on top, early Gee Bee lamp with knurled ringed base, with hook and cap braces, 3 in dia. brass reflector, working J & T (Jacobson and Turja) patented wire burner tip cleaner, mfg. by Grier Bros., ca. 1923-24, bottom unmarked (The Grier Bros. Co. was founded in 1839 in Pittsburgh, PA to manufacture miner's equipment. By the 1880s the company was very active in the manufacture and sales of oil wick lamps with branches in Hancock, MI and Dubois, PA. They produced a line of face and driver's wick lamps for both oil and Sunshine fuels including the popular STAR brand in a shield trademark (check out the Grier lamps in the oilwick lamp photos). As wick lamps started phasing out with the increased use of carbide lamps, the company started producing carbide lamp models perhaps as early as 1910. They marketed at least 26 different numbered carbide cap lamp models as the one shown here. In 1924, the Grier Bros. plant and product line was purchased by the Gem Manufacturing Co. and a year later a product line of carbide lamps with the GEM product name was introduced that led to at least 18 different GEM lamp models being advertised; see Pohs, Miner's Flame Light, pp 245, 429-434) slides/Grier Gee Bee II Bottom.jpg slides/The Hansen Family Photo.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 THE HANSEN FAMILY PHOTO - Augie Hansen's creations. Top row, L to R: Early Force Feed, Drylite, and Later Force Feed. Bottom Row, L to R: Force Feed with Hansen-Style Water Control and the Hansen, his last lamp design. THE HANSEN FAMILY PHOTO - Augie Hansen's creations. Top row, L to R: Early Force Feed, Drylite, and Later Force Feed. Bottom Row, L to R: Force Feed with Hansen-Style Water Control and the Hansen, his last lamp design. slides/The Hansen Family Photo.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite I LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] slides/Hansen DryLite I LSide.jpg slides/Hansen DryLite I RSide Cap Open.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] slides/Hansen DryLite I RSide Cap Open.jpg slides/Hansen DryLite I RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] slides/Hansen DryLite I RSide.jpg slides/Hansen DryLite I Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom, ex-Larry Click collection [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] slides/Hansen DryLite I Front.jpg slides/Hansen DryLite I Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] slides/Hansen DryLite I Back.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite I Top Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] HANSEN DRYLITE I - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] slides/Hansen DryLite I Top Marking.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite I Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE I BOTTOM - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] SEE HANSEN PATENTS FOR THE DRYLITE LAMP, BRACE AND SLOT IGNITER IN THE FOLLOWING PICS HANSEN DRYLITE I BOTTOM - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, top with distinctive domed cap, top unfired condition with lightly used bottom [When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177] SEE HANSEN PATENTS FOR THE DRYLITE LAMP, BRACE AND SLOT IGNITER IN THE FOLLOWING PICS slides/Hansen DryLite I Bottom.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite Patent I.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen DryLite Patent I.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite Patent II.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen DryLite Patent II.JPG slides/Hansen Lamp Brace Patent I.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen Lamp Brace Patent I.JPG slides/Hansen Lamp Brace Patent II.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen Lamp Brace Patent II.JPG slides/Hansen Slot Lighter Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen Slot Lighter Patent.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) slides/Hansen DryLite II LSide.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite II LSide Cap Open.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) slides/Hansen DryLite II LSide Cap Open.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) slides/Hansen DryLite II RSide.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite II Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) slides/Hansen DryLite II Front.jpg slides/Hansen DryLite II Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) slides/Hansen DryLite II Back.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite II Top Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) slides/Hansen DryLite II Top Marking.JPG slides/Hansen DryLite II Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) HANSEN DRYLITE II - Very rare brass cap lamp marked on top DRYLITE PATENTS PENDING MFD. BY A.L. HANSEN MFG. CO. CHICAGO, U.S.A., bottom marked DRYLITE TRADE MARK, with distinctive domed cap, lamp featured in full page photo on page 170 of Carbide Light: The Last Flame in American Mines, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (When Augie Hansen, the nation’s premier carbide lamp designer, left Justrite in early 1920, he immediately formed the A. L. Hansen Mfg. Co. in Chicago to produce distinctive lamps that included a variety of new patent features. His first lamp, called the DryLite, followed patent No.1,505,259 which he filed on May 22, 1920 and was later awarded Aug. 19, 1924. The DryLite used two cotton wicks to wick water up from the water tank into the domed cap and then down through a center tube to the bottom carbide. Supposedly, this provided a constant and dependable flow of water into the carbide. However, experience showed it to be a dismal failure when the wicks became clogged with spent carbide. The lamp was produced for barely a year, accounting for its rarity, while Hansen developed the Force Feed lamp to take its place (patent No. 1,644,780 filed on Oct. 28, 1921 and awarded Oct. 11, 1927). The DryLite incorporated two additional Hansen patents for the unique reflector brace and slotted igniter which he carried forward to the Force Feed lamps. The brace was awarded patent No. 1,464,988 on Aug. 14, 1923 after being filed on July 15, 1920. Similarly, the slotted igniter was awarded patent No. 1,490,562 on April 15, 1924 after being filed on July 22, 1920. Later models of the Force Feed and Hansen cap lamps also included a snap lighter patented by Hansen as No. 1,531,003, filed on Dec. 21, 1922 and awarded on Mar. 24, 1925. Hansen continued to produce lamps until late in the 1920s before moving on to manufacture other products. He was a prolific inventor being responsible for at least 32 patents associated with acetylene lamps during his years with Justrite and his own company. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 171-177) slides/Hansen DryLite II Bottom.JPG slides/Hansen Ad 1922 Williams Hardware Co. Catalogue.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN LAMP AD - Ad for the Hansen Force Feed lamp from the 1922 Williams Hardware Co. catalogue HANSEN LAMP AD - Ad for the Hansen Force Feed lamp from the 1922 Williams Hardware Co. catalogue slides/Hansen Ad 1922 Williams Hardware Co. Catalogue.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic1.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic1.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic2.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic2.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic3.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic3.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic4.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED BOTTOM - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) EARLY HANSEN FORCE FEED BOTTOM - Hard to find early brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, solid reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and PATENTS PENDING on water cotrol lever and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed I pic4.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed II LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed II LSide.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed II Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed II Front.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed II RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed II RSide.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed II LBack.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed II LBack.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed II RBack.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed II RBack.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed II Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED BOTTOM - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED BOTTOM - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Force Feed II Bottom.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed II with Spare Base.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH SPARE BOTTOM - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp with spare bottom, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) SEE THE HANSEN FORCE FEED PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC LATER HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH SPARE BOTTOM - Hard to find later model brass Hansen FORCE FEED cap lamp with spare bottom, slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, slotted-reflector igniter, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, new unfired condition (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp shown here employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) SEE THE HANSEN FORCE FEED PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Hansen Force Feed II with Spare Base.JPG slides/Hansen Force Feed Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen Force Feed Patent.JPG slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed RSide.JPG slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed Front.JPG slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed LSide.JPG slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed Back.JPG slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL BOTTOM - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] HANSEN FORCE FEED WITH HANSEN WATER CONTROL BOTTOM - Brass Force Feed cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top FORCE FEED in raised letters with OFF in small letters on right side and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA, unfired condition, ex-Steve Rush collection [rare variety of Force Feed lamp without the water plunger; similar to HANSEN marked lamp but marked FORCE FEED; thought to have occurred because company used extra top parts when conversion from Force Feed to Hansen production took place] slides/Force Feed with Hansen Style Water Feed Bottom.JPG slides/Hansen Lamp LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN - Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) HANSEN - Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Lamp LSide.JPG slides/Hansen Lamp Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN - Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) HANSEN - Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Lamp Front.JPG slides/Hansen Lamp RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN - Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) HANSEN - Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Lamp RSide.JPG slides/Hansen Lamp Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN -Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) SEE THE HANSEN SNAP IGNITER PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC HANSEN -Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) SEE THE HANSEN SNAP IGNITER PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Hansen Lamp Back.JPG slides/Hansen Snap Lighter Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen Snap Lighter Patent.JPG slides/Hansen Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN BOTTOM -Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) HANSEN BOTTOM -Hard to find brass Hansen cap lamp, with snap lite igniter and slotted reflector brace, 3.5 in. tall, marked on top HANSEN in raised letters and on bottom MANUFACTURED BY A.L.HANSEN MFG CO, CHICAGO, USA; ex-Henry Pohs collection (August L. "Augie" Hansen was the chief designer at Justrite since the company was founded in 1906 and the most prolific patentee in carbide mine lamp technology. He left Justrite in 1920 to pursue more of his ideas for carbide lamps and founded the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. in Chicago. Over the next few years he would bring three new products with a variety of new features to the marketplace. His first product was branded the "Drylite" lamp and employed a water feed via capillary action through a system of water wicks instead of the traditional metal dropper. He also produced the "Hansen" lamp shown here that used a more traditional water dropper device. The "Force Feed' lamp employed a more dynamic water valve that actually forced water into the carbide chamber through a positive pressure plunger device. The Force Feed trademark #199,490 was awarded to Hansen on June 9, 1925 and was in use since March 1923. Hansen manufactured lamps into the late 1920s before diversifying into other products. The company continues today as the A. L. Hansen Manufacturing Co. of Gurnee, Illinois, a producer of automotive parts and accessories. See Clemmer, American Miners' Carbide Lamps, p 73) slides/Hansen Bottom.JPG slides/Hansen Tip Cleaner.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HANSEN PATENT TIP CLEANER - This tip cleaning pack is one of the last of the patents filed by Augie L. Hansen in his long career designing carbide lamps. The pack is tinned steel 1 5/8 in. long and 11/16 in. wide at its widest point with a bundle of tip cleaning wires nestled under the clips. It came with a pin on the back to attach to clothing. Marked A. L. HANSEN CHICAGO PATS. PEND., the patent application was filed on April 30, 1923 and awarded as patent No. 1,498,371 on June 17, 1924. SEE THE HANSEN CLEANING DEVICE PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC HANSEN PATENT TIP CLEANER - This tip cleaning pack is one of the last of the patents filed by Augie L. Hansen in his long career designing carbide lamps. The pack is tinned steel 1 5/8 in. long and 11/16 in. wide at its widest point with a bundle of tip cleaning wires nestled under the clips. It came with a pin on the back to attach to clothing. Marked A. L. HANSEN CHICAGO PATS. PEND., the patent application was filed on April 30, 1923 and awarded as patent No. 1,498,371 on June 17, 1924. SEE THE HANSEN CLEANING DEVICE PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/Hansen Tip Cleaner.JPG slides/Hansen Tip Cleaner Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Hansen Tip Cleaner Patent.JPG slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass LSide.JPG slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass Front.JPG slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass RSide.JPG slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRASS BULLDOG - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite Brass Back.JPG slides/Harker Brite-Lite Brass Bottom Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRASS BULLDOG BOTTOM - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRASS BULLDOG BOTTOM - Brass Harker Bulldog lamp with lower extension of hook, with top water control lever, marked ON and OFF on top, base marked PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP, TRADE MARK REG., 2 3/16 in. dia. reflector, unfired, ex-Henry Pohs collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite-Lite Brass Bottom Marking.JPG slides/American Bull Dog Lamp in Harker Ad in 1918 Mining Catalog.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/American Bull Dog Lamp in Harker Ad in 1918 Mining Catalog.JPG slides/Harker Brite Lite RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite RSide.jpg slides/Harker Brite Lite LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite LSide.jpg slides/Harker Brite Lite Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite Marking.jpg slides/Harker Brite Lite Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HARKER BRITE LITE - Harker Brite Lite lamp, with side water feed control, original black paint, variation of cap hook without brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top PAT. APR. 24-14 with BRITE-LITE superimposed over HARKER MFG. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO and A DIFFERENT LAMP TRADE MARK REG. below; ex-Bill Collins collection [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp as shown here was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Harker Brite Lite Bottom.jpg slides/Hold-A-Lite Ad in Simmons Pioneer Brochure.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE AD - The Hold-A-Lite lamp was offered in this undated Simmons Pioneer brochure. The brochure was stamped by the E. D. Bullard Co., San Francisco. HOLD-A-LITE AD - The Hold-A-Lite lamp was offered in this undated Simmons Pioneer brochure. The brochure was stamped by the E. D. Bullard Co., San Francisco. slides/Hold-A-Lite Ad in Simmons Pioneer Brochure.jpg slides/Hold a Lite Lamp RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) slides/Hold a Lite Lamp RSide.jpg slides/Hold a Lite Lamp Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) slides/Hold a Lite Lamp Front.jpg slides/Hold a Lite Lamp LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) slides/Hold a Lite Lamp LSide.jpg slides/Hold a Lite Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE WITHOUT BURNER TIP COVER - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914; lamp shown without patented slip-on windproof burner tip cover (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) HOLD-A-LITE WITHOUT BURNER TIP COVER - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914; lamp shown without patented slip-on windproof burner tip cover (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) slides/Hold a Lite Front.jpg slides/Hold a Lite Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) slides/Hold a Lite Back.jpg slides/Hold a Lite Patents Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) slides/Hold a Lite Patents Marking.jpg slides/Hold a Lite Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) HOLD-A-LITE - Very rare brass cap lamp known as the Hold-A-Lite, reworked and updated version of the handsome Zar lamp, available only briefly ca. 1917; the lamp added a screw-on burner unit, notches stamped into the tank for the water control lever and knurling around the base; lamp is 4 in. tall to the water cap, 2 in. base dia., modified 2 1/8 in. dia. deep dish steel Simmons Pioneer reflector, bottom is marked JOHN SIMMONS CO. MFRS BALDWIN LAMPS NEW YORK, U.S.A. along with the diamond-shaped Simmons S trade mark, the left side of the tank is marked with 9 patent dates ranging from 1901 to 1914 (This lamp is featured in Figs 20 and 21 on pg 44 in Dave Thorpe’s Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines. The lamp is one of less than six known examples. See Bohannan, The Zar and Hold-A-Lite Carbide Lamps, Mining Artifact Collector #16, pp 20-25 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 43-44) slides/Hold a Lite Bottom.jpg slides/Hoppe Brite Lite LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Hoppe Brite Lite LSide.JPG slides/Hoppe Brite Lite Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Hoppe Brite Lite Front.JPG slides/Hoppe Brite Lite RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Hoppe Brite Lite RSide.JPG slides/Hoppe Brite Lite Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Hoppe Brite Lite Back.JPG slides/Hoppe Brite Lite pic3.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Hoppe Brite Lite pic3.JPG slides/Hoppe Brite Lite pic4.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HOPPE BRITE LITE - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Hoppe Brite Lite pic4.JPG slides/Hoppe Brite Lite Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HOPPE BRITE LITE BOTTOM - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] HOPPE BRITE LITE BOTTOM - Very hard to find Hoppe Brite Lite lamp with side water feed control, original black paint, cap hook with brace bar, smooth base, oval water door, marked on top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE PAT. APR. 24-14 with original wooden box including wood shavings packing material marked on sliding top THE HOPPE BRITE LITE ACETYLENE MINE LAMP $1.50 HARKER MANUFACTURING CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A. and on end THE HOPPE BRITE-LITE CAP LAMP WITH BAR BLACK FINISH $1.50 HARKER MFG. COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO U.S.A.; new in box condition [The history of this lamp all starts with Arphad Snell who patented a lamp in 1911 and arranged with a fellow named Charles Hoppe to manufacture the lamp (Snell lamp) in his metal shop. Mr. Hoppe eventually moved to Cincinnati and made the Snell lamp for a couple years till Mr. Hoppe started manufacturing an improved lamp in 1914 called the Ever-Ready. Between 1914 and 1916, Mr. Hoppe produced a lamp called the Hoppe Brite-Lite that continued to evolve from the Ever-Ready. In 1916, the Harker Mfg. Co. bought out the Hoppe metal shop and continued to manufacture the Hoppe Brite-Lite. In 1917, Mr. Hoppe's name was dropped and the lamp was marked Harker Mfg. Co. Sometime during the early 1920's (not quite clear), the Harker lamps were phased out and that was that.] slides/Hoppe Brite Lite Bottom.JPG slides/Hughes Bros. Ad - 1915 Keystone Coal Catalogue.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 Ad for the Hughes Brothers showing the Pathfinder lamp from the 1915 Keystone Coal Catalogue Ad for the Hughes Brothers showing the Pathfinder lamp from the 1915 Keystone Coal Catalogue slides/Hughes Bros. Ad - 1915 Keystone Coal Catalogue.jpg slides/Hughes Pathfinder and Spare Base.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with larger brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with original felt holder and sparker assembly, unmarked base (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with larger brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with original felt holder and sparker assembly, unmarked base (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder and Spare Base.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder Side.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with larger brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with original felt holder and sparker assembly, unmarked base (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with larger brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with original felt holder and sparker assembly, unmarked base (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder Side.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER BOTTOM - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with larger brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with original felt holder and sparker assembly, unmarked base (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER BOTTOM - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with larger brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with original felt holder and sparker assembly, unmarked base (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder Bottom.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder Bottom Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 Marked brass Pathfinder cap lamp bottom by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, marked HUGHES BROS. PATHFINDER SCRANTON.PA Marked brass Pathfinder cap lamp bottom by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, marked HUGHES BROS. PATHFINDER SCRANTON.PA slides/Hughes Pathfinder Bottom Marking.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base RSide.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Front.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base LSide.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Back.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Bottom.JPG slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) HUGHES PATHFINDER WITH KNURLED BASE - Brass Pathfinder cap lamp by Hughes Brothers, Scranton, PA, with large brass reflector and black enameled clip, complete with felt holder and large thumb-wheel sparker assembly, hard-to-find knurled base, base marked HUGHES BROS PATHFINDER SCRANTON,PA, ex-Dave Thorpe collection (Hughes Brothers began making safety lamps in the early 1870s and by 1912, they had a significant market share of the safety lamp sales in the US. In the early 1910s, brothers Ralph W. and William H. Hughes of Scranton, PA introduced three new acetylene lamps manufactured by the Hughes Brothers. Designated Pathfinder, two were hand lamps (one touted as a sportsman lamp) and the third was a cap lamp as shown here easily recognized by the black steel clip that attaches the reflector to the lamp. All lamps were available in either brass or nickel plate with two different sized reflectors in brass or steel. The Pathfinder cap lamp was advertised as early as 1914 and into the 1920s in Keystone Catalogs. In 1920, a third brother, Sidney Hughes, joined the Hughes Brothers Brass Works eventually becoming president of the firm in 1931. As noted by Gregg Clemmer, the Pathfinder lamps had limited use, primarily in Pennsylvania, but they never achieved the same success as the Hughes safety lamps. The company went out of business in 1937. See Clemmer, American Miners’ Carbide Lamps, p 75 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 67-71) slides/Hughes Pathfinder with Knurled Base Marking.JPG slides/ITP I LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP I LSide.jpg slides/ITP I Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP I Front.jpg slides/ITP I RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP I RSide.jpg slides/ITP I Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP I Back.jpg slides/ITP I Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) SEE BROCK'S FORCE FEED PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC ITP FLOAT FEED I - ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP marked on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., NY PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY, lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING, complete; acquired from my good friend John Stimson of Rocks of Ages (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) SEE BROCK'S FORCE FEED PATENT IN THE FOLLOWING PIC slides/ITP I Bottom.jpg slides/Brock Float Feed Patent.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 slides/Brock Float Feed Patent.JPG slides/ITP II.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED II - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: July 29, 1913; April 21,1914; June 16, 1914; Aug. 6, 1918; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED II - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: July 29, 1913; April 21,1914; June 16, 1914; Aug. 6, 1918; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP II.JPG slides/ITP II Bottom Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED BOTTOM - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: July 29, 1913; April 21,1914; June 16, 1914; Aug. 6, 1918; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED BOTTOM - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: July 29, 1913; April 21,1914; June 16, 1914; Aug. 6, 1918; ex-Dave Gresko collection (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP II Bottom Marking.JPG slides/ITP III LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP III LSide.jpg slides/ITP III Front.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP III Front.jpg slides/ITP III RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP III RSide.jpg slides/ITP III Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP III Back.jpg slides/ITP III Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) ITP FLOAT FEED III - Marked ITP FLOAT FEED LAMP on top, nickel plated, reflector marked DEWAR MFG. CO., PAT. PEND., bottom marked THE DEWAR MFG. CO., BROOKLYN, NY,lamp patented with dates: JULY 29, 1913; APRIL 21, 1914; JUNE 16, 1914; AUG. 6, 1918, OTHERS PENDING (The Dewar Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY was the producer of the "ITP (It's Trouble Proof)" cap and hand lamps, the "Sun-Ray" cap lamps, and the "Dew-R-Lite" hand lamps. Dewar was formed around 1914 by Wilbur A. Cochrane, formerly with the John Simmons Co., Francis H. Coffin, formerly with the Scranton Acetylene Lamp Co., and John M. Brock, lamp designer and inventor. Dewar registered their ITP trademark in 1916 and was already producing its ITP cap and hand lamps. The ITP brand became linked with the term "Float Feed" which was Brock's 1916 patented device for an automatic water feed. The Sun-Ray cap lamp was introduced in 1919 by Dewar as an unusual nickel-plated lamp with a number of distinguishing optional features. These included a matte finish, a cast aluminum "Ha-Mer-It" reflector, a radial-ribbed ornate reflector, the three-position "Han-de-Han-del" carrying bracket and the large diameter "Kra-Ker-Jak" ceramic burner tip. Dewar was also marketing a number of steel and nickel-plated ITP and Dewar hand lamps throughout the 1920s. In 1928, the all-brass Dew-R-Lite hand lamp models No. 204 with handles and No. 206 with bail were introduced by Dewar and sold throughout the 1930s. Prior to World War II, the Dewar Manufacturing Co. was purchased by the Wolf Safety Lamp Co. of America and Dewar carbide lamp production rapidly tapered off. See Clemmer, American Miner's Carbide Lamps, p 69 and Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 49-57) slides/ITP III Bottom.jpg slides/Justrite.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NO. 707 - Later model Justrite brass cap lamp with hook and cap braces, side marked TRADE MARK JUSTRITE MADE IN USA PAT. APPLIED FOR, water lever marked POLYGON FEED PATENTED 2-21-22, bottom marked DEC 30.19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, beautiful patina [Justrite horizontal lamps were changed in the early 1930s to include a removable reflector, attached to the lamp by a wing nut around the burner tube. The lamp shown was offered in Justrite's 1936 Catalog No. 10 as model No. 707. See Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol. 10, p 164] JUSTRITE NO. 707 - Later model Justrite brass cap lamp with hook and cap braces, side marked TRADE MARK JUSTRITE MADE IN USA PAT. APPLIED FOR, water lever marked POLYGON FEED PATENTED 2-21-22, bottom marked DEC 30.19 MADE IN USA PATENTED, beautiful patina [Justrite horizontal lamps were changed in the early 1930s to include a removable reflector, attached to the lamp by a wing nut around the burner tube. The lamp shown was offered in Justrite's 1936 Catalog No. 10 as model No. 707. See Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol. 10, p 164] slides/Justrite.JPG slides/Justrite NP No. 747 LSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models slides/Justrite NP No. 747 LSide.jpg slides/Justrite NP No. 747 RSide.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models slides/Justrite NP No. 747 RSide.jpg slides/Justrite NP No. 747 Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models slides/Justrite NP No. 747 Marking.jpg slides/Justrite NP No. 747 Back.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models slides/Justrite NP No. 747 Back.jpg slides/Justrite NP No. 747 Bottom.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models JUSTRITE NP NO. 747 - Nickel-plated Justrite cap lamp, Polygon water feed, water control with lower spring lever marked in script Justrite, 4 in. nickel-plated brass reflector, removable spring wire cap brace, marked on font TRADE MARK JUSTRITE (in script) MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. APPLIED FOR, bottom marked UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, with Justrite Air-Cooled Grip, thought to be Justrite No. 747 in nickel plate (No. 749?), ca. 1937, last model before Streamlined models slides/Justrite NP No. 747 Bottom.jpg slides/Justrite 3 Date Lever Feed.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NO. 407 LEVER FEED - Horizontal Justrite cap lamp with 2 1/4 in. reflector, marked on side JUSTRITE PAT. MAY 7, 1912 PAT. OCT. 28, 1913 PAT. NOV. 23, 1915 OTHERS PENDING and OFF on other side, Justrite Lever Feed, double ring beaded base, complete with round hook and cap braces [Around 1917, Justrite changed the 3-date patent stamping on the tank to remove the 1901 date and add the 1915 date. The Justrite Lever Feed marking was added shortly after the date change. This lamp was offered in the May 1919 Justrite Catalog No. 3 as model No. 407. If the lamp included a No. 77 carbide can, it was model No. 85. If the lamp came with a spare No. 68 carbide bottom, it was offered as model No. 57. It is with this clarity that identifying various models of Justrite lamps is made so much easier - GULP! See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 133-134 and Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol 10, p 94] JUSTRITE NO. 407 LEVER FEED - Horizontal Justrite cap lamp with 2 1/4 in. reflector, marked on side JUSTRITE PAT. MAY 7, 1912 PAT. OCT. 28, 1913 PAT. NOV. 23, 1915 OTHERS PENDING and OFF on other side, Justrite Lever Feed, double ring beaded base, complete with round hook and cap braces [Around 1917, Justrite changed the 3-date patent stamping on the tank to remove the 1901 date and add the 1915 date. The Justrite Lever Feed marking was added shortly after the date change. This lamp was offered in the May 1919 Justrite Catalog No. 3 as model No. 407. If the lamp included a No. 77 carbide can, it was model No. 85. If the lamp came with a spare No. 68 carbide bottom, it was offered as model No. 57. It is with this clarity that identifying various models of Justrite lamps is made so much easier - GULP! See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 133-134 and Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol 10, p 94] slides/Justrite 3 Date Lever Feed.JPG slides/Justrite 3 Date Wire Feed.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NO. 407 WIRE FEED - Horizontal Justrite cap lamp with 2 1/4 in. reflector, marked on side JUSTRITE MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. MAY 7, 1912 PAT. OCT. 28, 1913 PAT. NOV. 23, 1915 OTHERS PENDING and OFF on other side, marked Justrite Wire Feed, double ring beaded base, round water door, complete with round hook and cap braces [Around 1917, Justrite changed the 3-date patent stamping on the tank to remove the 1901 date and add the 1915 date. Later, around 1921, after Augie Hansen had left and William Frisbie had become chief Justrite designer, MADE IN U.S.A. was added to the 3-date tank marking. At that same time, Justrite dropped both the Lever and Liberty water feed options and this lamp was offered with the Justrite wire feed as No. 407 and with the Polygon water feed as lamp No. 707. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 135-138 and Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol 10, pp 109-111] JUSTRITE NO. 407 WIRE FEED - Horizontal Justrite cap lamp with 2 1/4 in. reflector, marked on side JUSTRITE MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. MAY 7, 1912 PAT. OCT. 28, 1913 PAT. NOV. 23, 1915 OTHERS PENDING and OFF on other side, marked Justrite Wire Feed, double ring beaded base, round water door, complete with round hook and cap braces [Around 1917, Justrite changed the 3-date patent stamping on the tank to remove the 1901 date and add the 1915 date. Later, around 1921, after Augie Hansen had left and William Frisbie had become chief Justrite designer, MADE IN U.S.A. was added to the 3-date tank marking. At that same time, Justrite dropped both the Lever and Liberty water feed options and this lamp was offered with the Justrite wire feed as No. 407 and with the Polygon water feed as lamp No. 707. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 135-138 and Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol 10, pp 109-111] slides/Justrite 3 Date Wire Feed.JPG slides/Justrite 3 Date Wire Feed Top Marking.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE NO. 407 WIRE FEED - Horizontal Justrite cap lamp with 2 1/4 in. reflector, marked on side JUSTRITE MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. MAY 7, 1912 PAT. OCT. 28, 1913 PAT. NOV. 23, 1915 OTHERS PENDING and OFF on other side, marked Justrite Wire Feed, double ring beaded base, round water door, complete with round hook and cap braces [Around 1917, Justrite changed the 3-date patent stamping on the tank to remove the 1901 date and add the 1915 date. Later, around 1921, after Augie Hansen had left and William Frisbie had become chief Justrite designer, MADE IN U.S.A. was added to the 3-date tank marking. At that same time, Justrite dropped both the Lever and Liberty water feed options and this lamp was offered with the Justrite wire feed as No. 407 and with the Polygon water feed as lamp No. 707. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 135-138 and Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol 10, pp 109-111] JUSTRITE NO. 407 WIRE FEED - Horizontal Justrite cap lamp with 2 1/4 in. reflector, marked on side JUSTRITE MADE IN U.S.A. PAT. MAY 7, 1912 PAT. OCT. 28, 1913 PAT. NOV. 23, 1915 OTHERS PENDING and OFF on other side, marked Justrite Wire Feed, double ring beaded base, round water door, complete with round hook and cap braces [Around 1917, Justrite changed the 3-date patent stamping on the tank to remove the 1901 date and add the 1915 date. Later, around 1921, after Augie Hansen had left and William Frisbie had become chief Justrite designer, MADE IN U.S.A. was added to the 3-date tank marking. At that same time, Justrite dropped both the Lever and Liberty water feed options and this lamp was offered with the Justrite wire feed as No. 407 and with the Polygon water feed as lamp No. 707. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 135-138 and Kouts, Miners' Carbide Lamp Reference Justrite Catalogs, Vol 10, pp 109-111] slides/Justrite 3 Date Wire Feed Top Marking.JPG slides/Justrite Ad for the No. 44 Lamp.html# Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:21:13 -0700 JUSTRITE AD FOR THE NO. 44 LAMP - This ad from the July 18, 1914 issue of the Mining and Engineering World offers a number of classic Justrite lamps including the No. 44 Head Light (compliments of Neil Tysver) JUSTRITE AD FOR THE NO. 44 LAMP - This ad from the July 18, 1914 issue of the Mining and Engineering World offers a number of classic Justrite lamps including the No. 44 Head Light (compliments of Neil Tysver)