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Grier Bros Horizontal RSide
Grier Bros Horizontal Back
Grier Bros Horizontal Bottom
Grier Horizontal NP LSide
Grier Horizontal NP Front
  Grier Horizontal NP RSide.jpg - 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)  
Grier Horizontal NP Marking
Grier Horizontal NP Back
Grier Horizontal NP Bottom
Grier Horizontal NP Early Spare Base
Grier Horizontal NP with Early Base and Spare

Grier Horizontal NP RSide | 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) Download Original Image
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