Carbide Cap Lamps/Hold a Lite Patents Marking

Carbide Cap Lamps

Hold a Lite Patents Marking.jpg - 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, CarbideLight, pp 43-44)

Hold a Lite Patents Marking | 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)

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