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  Acme Bottom.JPG - ACME NO. 80 - ACME No. 80 superintendent-type lamp with folding handles,nickel-plated finish steel, top marked TRADE MARK ACME MADE INUSA PATENTED FEB 21.22 with 3 in. reflector, POLYGON FEEDwater lever (The steel Acme hand lamp was produced by the Justrite Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, IL around 1920. Two standard models were available as the No. 50 with bail and hook and No. 56 with folding handles. A third model, the No. 80 as shown here, was identical to the No. 56 except for the nickel finish instead of the tinned finish. Hand lamps with the Acme name were produced during the 1920s and discontinued in 1930. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 144-145)  
Justrite Acme Ad 1924 Engineering and Mining Journal
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Acme No.50 Ad Justrite No. 4 Catalogue ca. 1923
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Acme Bottom | ACME NO. 80 - ACME No. 80 superintendent-type lamp with folding handles, nickel-plated finish steel, top marked TRADE MARK ACME MADE IN USA PATENTED FEB 21.22 with 3 in. reflector, POLYGON FEED water lever (The steel Acme hand lamp was produced by the Justrite Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, IL around 1920. Two standard models were available as the No. 50 with bail and hook and No. 56 with folding handles. A third model, the No. 80 as shown here, was identical to the No. 56 except for the nickel finish instead of the tinned finish. Hand lamps with the Acme name were produced during the 1920s and discontinued in 1930. See Thorpe, Carbide Light, pp 144-145) Download Original Image
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