Hello all, Can anyone identify the model number on this lamp please? This goes in the “Just buy it then figure out what it is later” category; it fits perfectly into my collecting niche At first glance it appears to be an American Gas Machine model 76; but that’s a hollow wire lamp and I cannot locate paper on a tanked model. i feel like I’ve seen this tank design before, but it escapes me. Thank you, John
Ha! So you bought that, @John. I was watching it, but not bidding. At least one other member here was looking at the auction as well, and they know more about that lamp than I. Cheers Tony
Hello Tony, Yes, it gave me a good scare right there at the end. It appears to be a Stanley 976; I’ve just found Stu’s excellent write up on fettling two of them back to life. I am on a mission to find inverted lamps at the moment and this just fit the bill, probably the closest thing I will find to an American inverted. Thank you, John
I think Stanleys 976 is likely correct for this one. I can't find any evidence that AGM ever sold any of this pendant type of lamp as a direct sale and since this was found in the UK it is more likely to be a Stanleys sale originally. However Stanleys lamps nearly always have a soldered label in the tank base which this lacks and that might suggest a different UK retailer or maybe just a Friday afternoon at Stanleys. In most cases Stanleys used the original manufacturers model numbers and they sold a variety of pendant lamps with this same tank and several hollow wire lamps below. They are a good powerful lamp and the two we had here work very well. The tank is a puzzle. I don’t recognise it as an AGM tank or any other US brand. Stanleys sold lamps made by AGM, Best and Nulite and I had thought maybe a Nulite tank but the profile isn’t quite right for that. They do state that it has a quart capacity and that the 300-400cp lamps will run for 16 hours which I suspect is a little exaggerated. Just possible perhaps though if they mean a real quart instead of the short measure US quart. Problem I have with that is it’s smaller than a Tilley tank and that is a 30floz capacity tank or just a tad under a 32floz US quart which gives a run time of about 12 hours in a 300cp lamp. That means at best this 976 should burn for 6 hours and that seems too small for a commercial application. Stanleys lamps were advertised from 1921 to the mid 1920s so your 976 will be close to 100 years old. ::Neil::
@Mackburner thank you for the paper, it’ll go in a frame below the lamp. The pictures of the tank are pretty good but I’ll get a closer look when it gets here. John
The base plate label is quite large and I would expect to see some evidence if it was there and been removed. ::Neil::
