Hello and hope this mail finds you well. I'm writing you from France - Paris. This is my first post, and I may need your help. It is indirectly related to pressure lamps. I'm doing some research on a French illustrator, that was famous in the 50/60s for Science Fiction covers. As many others illustrators he used the famous Adamski UFO as reference, which was nothing else than a Sears lamp. See below one of the covers of the French illustrator : René Brantonne in 1954. Following the information I found it seems the model used by Adamski to create his "faked" shot of UFO was this one : For my research, I'm looking for and HD picture of this model, and even better for a HD (300dpi) scan of the above advertisement (I think it is coming from a Sears 1935 catalogue). Unfortunate mine is low resolution. Many thanks for your help. All the best, Michel
Not looking like any Sears hood in the gallery here. Wikipedia says that he used a surgical lamp: "German scientist Walther Johannes Riedel said this photo was faked using a surgical lamp and that the landing struts were General Electric light bulbs." Perhaps Sears also made surgical lamps? However I agree that it's possible that he used a hood from some pressure lantern too. Or perhaps better yet; the lower part of a hanging lamp. The famous picture: Here's a picture of one of my Lux hanging UFO's in the sky. Oh, well... just the lower reflector part. Sorry for the crappy cropping and photomontage. I just made a 2 minute job for fun. And the frames and mantle is not edited away But it gives an idea how Adamski was thinking. It would be nice to see the original lamp he used, surgical or what ever it was:
Indeed. But since it is said that he used a surgical lamp and it was the mid-fifties, I assume it's an electrical one. If so, the reflector part might still very well look similar to the old hanging lamps we have.
Well he did have the time to make an ufo like thing from whatever he had. But it looks darn close to what you have @Carlsson. Aside: the problem I have with a lot of UFO's is that they seem to follow the "ship lighting protocol" (red. white, green light) as well as having windows.
The lantern depicted in the ad is a Turner built lantern. They had a couple variations of these. The ones for Sears were not branded if I recall correctly and had a reddish orange vent with black fount.
It doesn't look like that one either. And you are talking about the actual Adamski photo, right? Not the illustration based on his photo? Either way, none of them looks like the hood from the suggested lanterns. Where did you get the idea that he was using a pressure lantern? Apart from that the thing he used didn't have the same shape as the hoods you suggest, the lamp he used also didn't have an even row of vent holes, but in groups.
@Carlsson hi ! >>Where did you get the idea that he was using a pressure lantern? Got the idea from the work done by Joel Carpenter here. https://ia804501.us.archive.org/10/...oto/Prelim_Notes_Adamski_Scout_Ship_mini2.pdf
Aha! In this discussion, Neil mention being contacted by a guy in the matter, and apparently came to the conclusion that a Turner lantern was the most likely. Just as you suggested above the ones branded as Brooklure 5035 also seen at Terry Marsh's site here (scroll down to Turner Brass Works lanterns). I didn't see before that the holes had a gap where the handle is, making it look more like the "Adamski hood".
