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Maple City Flask Top.JPG - MAPLE CITY EMERGENCY LAMP AND FLASK - Extremely rare multi-compartment carbide flask manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth IL, ca. 1912, 6 1/2 in. long, 2 5/8 in. high and 1 3/4 in. deep, marked in circular stamping on side MAPLE CITY MFG. CO. MONMOUTH ILL. with PAT. PENDING underneath, flask and compartment caps are heavy tin with brass oil wick burner tube and tube cap, [The Maple City Emergency Lamp and Flask is an unusual half-moon shaped fuel carrier manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth IL around 1912. Made in both brass and heavy tin with a brass oil wick burner tube and cap, the flask had compartments for carbide, water and matches. A small enclosed oil wick lamp complete with capped oil fill compartment could be used as an emergency lamp while the miner refueled his carbide cap lamp. As advertised, the flask carried sufficient carbide and water for 3 lamp charges. Two belt loops allowed the flask to be carried on the miner’s belt. The flask is extremely rare, this being one of only four known flasks in collections. It’s interesting to note that three of the known flasks have PAT. PENDING stamped on the side while the fourth does not. A diligent search has not found any patent issued for the flask. The flask shown is featured in Fig. 22, pg 163 in Dave Thorpe’s book Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines.]

Maple City Flask Top | MAPLE CITY EMERGENCY LAMP AND FLASK - Extremely rare multi-compartment carbide flask manufactured by Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth IL, ca. 1912, 6 1/2 in. long, 2 5/8 in. high and 1 3/4 in. deep, marked in circular stamping on side MAPLE CITY MFG. CO. MONMOUTH ILL. with PAT. PENDING underneath, flask and compartment caps are heavy tin with brass oil wick burner tube and tube cap, [The Maple City Emergency Lamp and Flask is an unusual half-moon shaped fuel carrier manufactured by the Maple City Manufacturing Co. of Monmouth IL around 1912. Made in both brass and heavy tin with a brass oil wick burner tube and cap, the flask had compartments for carbide, water and matches. A small enclosed oil wick lamp complete with capped oil fill compartment could be used as an emergency lamp while the miner refueled his carbide cap lamp. As advertised, the flask carried sufficient carbide and water for 3 lamp charges. Two belt loops allowed the flask to be carried on the miner’s belt. The flask is extremely rare, this being one of only four known flasks in collections. It’s interesting to note that three of the known flasks have PAT. PENDING stamped on the side while the fourth does not. A diligent search has not found any patent issued for the flask. The flask shown is featured in Fig. 22, pg 163 in Dave Thorpe’s book Carbide Light – The Last Flame in American Mines.]

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