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Carbide Hand Lamps

Full Moon pic1.JPG - FULL MOON - Hard to find carbide lamp, precursor to first miners carbide lamp by Baldwin, marked on top OPEN SHUT on either side of fill cap and FULL MOON NEW YORK, U.S.A., 5 in. high with 3 clutches on base of 2 ½ in. dia, with supt. style handles and deep dish 3 3/8 in. dia. reflector, nickel plated (in 1900, A. H. Funke of Manhattan, NY teamed with Fred Baldwin using Baldwin’s patent, to manufacture the Baldwinbicycle lamp in June 1900; in Sept. 1900 they added supt. style handles to the bicycle lamp and named it the Full Moon miner’s lamp; they split by 1902 and Baldwin teamed with Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co. to produce the Superintendent’s Lamp nearly identical to Full Moon but with both handles and a hook; see Sept. 15, 1900 issue of TheEngineering and Mining Journal for lamp description)

Full Moon pic1 | FULL MOON - Hard to find carbide lamp, precursor to first miners carbide lamp by Baldwin, marked on top OPEN SHUT on either side of fill cap and FULL MOON NEW YORK, U.S.A., 5 in. high with 3 clutches on base of 2 ½ in. dia, with supt. style handles and deep dish 3 3/8 in. dia. reflector, nickel plated (in 1900, A. H. Funke of Manhattan, NY teamed with Fred Baldwin using Baldwin’s patent, to manufacture the Baldwin bicycle lamp in June 1900; in Sept. 1900 they added supt. style handles to the bicycle lamp and named it the Full Moon miner’s lamp; they split by 1902 and Baldwin teamed with Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co. to produce the Superintendent’s Lamp nearly identical to Full Moon but with both handles and a hook; see Sept. 15, 1900 issue of The Engineering and Mining Journal for lamp description)

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