Hi ! As I said before on posting of Arne ,Norway I had facination for these lamps and had it at the top of my wish list of continental lamps for years. One day Ross appeared on my door step ,he'd been in Oslo and saw the lamp in an antique shop. Wow ! Thanks Ross . No stand with it but this strange wire handle arrangment .
Glad you like it! That's a few years back now. They always look bigger in pics than they actually are.
Hi! Outside front door is about the only working area I 've got left ,the back yard is just a no go zone ! snow everywhere ! with roads on three sides of me ,any thing could come along and flatten my lamp ! Any one know what is written on the front of the tank and why big " S " ? ...mick
Now that is odd. I have some images of a Do nut lamp with a reflector marked "Kersinol made in Italy" and the main body of the lamp embossed "KERSINOL" Quite how the same name turns up on a German/Swiss Standard lamp found in Oslo I can't imagine. ::Neil::
These models were exported to a number of countries, also to Sweden. Here we find them with a decal showing the name of the company that once imported them, Hugo Tillquist a company selling railway stuff. So I guess it is a retailer marking. I agree, a very nice floodligh lamp. It was sold in both kero and alcohol fuelled versions. A stand for it is easy to make in flat iron steel. The stand was actually also in two versions, one simple flat model and another with shaped edges. Hard to describe how it looks like. Think I have better take some photos and post tomorrow. Bo
Hi Bo ! Good to hear from you again , I get my gossip as to what you,ve found via Ross !! Please show me the frame ideas then as you say I can easily knock one up maybe you can give me the maximum hieght of the frame and same for width in centimetres or millimetres. Does Kersinol translate to a word in Swedish or Norwayish ! If you speak Swedish do you always understand the norway language or are they very different. Thanks for your help Bo ! regards Mick
There's no word like Kersinol in Swedish, and as far as I can tell not in Norwegian either. And yes, we do understand eachother very well across the border. Some better than others, I suppose. I have absolutely no problems with Norwegian, but then I come from the part of Sweden that used to belong to Norway so much of our dialect is still closer to Norwegian than to Swedish. There are some Norwegian words that I have noticed that "the standard Swedish speakers" actually are having problems to grasp. Still, the differences are so small between our languages that it's no problems to understand or to be understood. If you are talking about the profiled frame I have on the two Standard floodlights I posted here, I could also give you the measurements. Or were you thinking about the other kind of stand? Cheers,
I am pretty sure Kersinol is not Italian either yet it appears on a lamp marked as made in Italy. We got a mystery here and I want to know more. ::Niel::
i just typed Kersinol into google and there is a stormlamp 200cp on a thia website embossed tank dont understand all the writing tho
Makes sense. That 200 cp lantern is clearly a Standard. The Italian one is a do nut which has Kersinol embossed in the main body but the reflector is printed with Kersinol Made in Italy. As it looks very like a Petromax I suspect that is also a Standard and German not Itlaian. ::Neil::
Ok a bit of research and I think I got there. The lantern on the Thai site is a Standard 5022 and I am now pretty sure the do nut marked as Italian is in fact a Standard model 200 do nut. Looks to me that Kersinol is a brand name owned by Standard Licht and the name on this Standard floodlight sort of confirms that. ::Neil::
