I have no clue who made this. There are no markings on it anywhere. I bought it on the Bay from Peru some years ago. Not complete as the top hood had been replaced with the hood from a tubular lantern and the shade carrier/reflector is missing. The mantle tube is small and I suspect it is 200 cp only. It has hung on a bracket for maybe ten years and I though I would have a go at making it run. Easy fettle. It only wanted new seals in the filler and pump check. The difficult bit was having to make an adaptor for the cycle pump. The thread on the lamp is 1/4" whit so I had to tap out a piece of brass and then silver solder that to a cut down schrader valve. Fill and pump and a blinding light. I only ran it at just under 1 bar but a really good light. Trick the next is to make a globe carrier and then hang some glass under it. ::Neil::
Amazing! Who knows what is out there to be discovered in the gloom of the unlit lamp world? Great find Neil and please let us see the finished product when it is ready, to cast some more illumination on our Forum. Best wishes for 2012 - Steve.
Yes when I bought it I thought it was a Petromax but they never made one with a ball tank and anyway they marked everything and this has nothing embossed, stamped or printed on it. The use of English threads might point to an English or Empire manufacturer. Who knows. Peru turned up lamps from all over the world so in this case where it was found means nothing. Finished? It is more or less. I doubt I will do much more except perhaps try to fit a globe. That is likely to be a lash up job which I may be ashamed to show here. We shall see. ::Neil::
Hi nevertheless a fantastic lamp, it seems to be very well made and a good bit of engineering . It would very much remind you of a empire type lamp Would like to see it finished Kenny
What's with this finished bit you guys are obsessed with? It works, what more do you want. Mind you on the other hand how about this then? ::Neil:: It is quite well made. Good and solid although the burner casing appears to be an alloy which is odd for English stuff or German for that matter. I have seen Aluminium used on Hungarian stuff. Who knows? Maybe someone will recognise some of the bits. The fuel level gauge is the same as found on Blanchard and Tilley but I don't think either of those guys made this. ::Neil::
French? Yes why not. It does sort of look a bit like a Blanchard pendant but the pump fitting is wrong for them. It could just as easily be American. They use threads similar to old Imperial types. ::Neil::
I'm just thinking that these lamps belong on the set of a steam-punk film! Wonderful looking gadgets these...
Old Swedish lamps use Whitworth threads so that's another possibility. There were quite a few manufacturers around in Sweden in the very early 1900s that you don't hear about. None of the parts look familiar though.
The generator and such in there are actually very like a German Do nut. I did not take any pictures of this because I did not dismantle it when fettling. All it wanted was the jet pricking and it blew air and it was reasonably clean inside so I did not bother to break it down for images. It was the burner arrangement that made me think maybe German but that can be misleading because most of the Asian copies use the same burner type. One day maybe a piece of paper will tell all. ::Neil::
