This one is very similar to other of the same style but details are different. I haven't find it in any catalogue this far. At the Swedish "förgasarforum", another one, exactly the same, is posted. So it must have been imported to Sweden, as long as it not is a Swedish brand, but I don't believe so. No markings at all, not even on the pressure meter.
Hi Bo, what a great find . I found these catalogue images (1910-1911) earlier when the first donut was shown at the Swedish "förgasarforum". Sorry, but I have no further info on this! /Conny
I bet it is made from the same manufacturer as Conny show. Atleast the burner is very special in its design, and is a spitting image of the one made by Eckel & Glinincke. There's another one with this burner called "Meteorlampan" in a Swedish catalogue. It's most likely an imported lamp which has been renamed in Sweden.
Thank you both for this info. It is absolutely an Olympia. And the style is very similar to the Olymp, without an a so I would say this is the evidence that tells the manufacturer is E&G. I believe many model were renamed by the company that imported them. Just compare with cars, the same model but different names in different countries. Thereis one strange thing wit this lamp. As shown on images, it has an opening at the end of the globe and there is a lid there that can be opened. But the lid is actually only a collar that is open itself. Is there a part missing? That Olymp lamp don't has this lid, the globe seems to be solid at the end. A qute thing with this find is that it was containing fuel and there still was pressure in the tanl. Mayeb only to light up after all these years?
The link below shows a British advert, but it looks like the same lamp to me, Jeff. http://classicpressurelamps.com/index.php?threads/911
Jeff, I think I read about everything in here, but I must have missed when you posted this one! Bo´s lamp most certainly has the same origin as the one in your thread, which just confirms that this was a lamp that was sold/exported to other countries with a new name invented by the importer in question.
Hello Christer, if you look at page 2 via the link in my previous post, you will see that wire rope is mentioned and it's diameter is given as 5mm. That is why I have always thought that the lamp which is shown in that advert was made in mainland Europe and most likely in Germany. Metrication was not in general use in the UK., back in 1909, so if it had been a British made product, then the rope size would have been given in imperial measurement, Jeff.
Well, in those days we weren't metric either, so it strenghtens the German/continental bond even more.
Well, we did adopt the metric system already in the late 19:th century. But that was only officially! It's hard to say a point when we actually went over completely, but it's not so long ago. Some twenty, thirty years perhaps? Most manufacturer kept on with their own threads. Or imperial. Or metric. Whatever they found suitable. I think e.g. Volvo used imperial threads up in our time for atleast some bolts. An old stationary engine I have uses Whitworth. So what I really meant was that you can't go by the threads on an old lamp to decide it's origin up here. They could use any kind of standard, or even their own special cut.
