Hi all, Here's my example of the Lux Victoria lamp, from the Swedish AB Lux company. This 112 cm high and 180 CP kerosene gravity lamp was first launched in 1912 and production continued until around 1915. Each lamp was given a production number, so with 3467, probably mid to late in the production line. From an old type written draft from 1940,s, where the company AB Electrolux are describing the AB Lux/AB Electrolux history from 1900 onwards, one can find a lot of interesting information. Most of these Victoria lamps were exported, many to the Balkan countries. Very few stayed in Sweden and the reason to that is that the Victoria lamp was not approved in Sweden for use in fire-insured premises. There was an organisation "Svenska Brandtarifföreningen" that was investigating and approving new lighting devices for fire safety. They had earlier approved most, if not all, the Lux lamp models, but in the case of the Victoria lamp they denied approval. I don't know why, as there had been several improvements for this lamp, for example a device for collecting and draining un-vaporised redundancy fuel. So few Victoria lamps stayed in Sweden and should be regarded as kind of rare. More rare is the shorter "one-legged" version of the Victoria lamp. Attached you can see an image of that lamp from the Technical museum in Stockholm. The first patent I can find for this lamp is a Swedish patent from 1910, SE33466.C1. There are several similar lamps from this period. Hugo Schneider has a similar patent from 1911 and also Eckel & Glinicke has a lamp with similar design, the "Perpetua". "Auto-lampan"/Sinumbra or "Petrolarc" is another lamp with similar burner construction. A very solid built lamp with very few parts. I was lucky to have the original vase shade on this lamp and also the original chimney. The first lighting try was no success, so I tried another spare jet I had and then it fired up nicely. Here is a video clip AB Lux Victoria gravity lamp - YouTube /Conny 1910 AB Lux Swedish patent ................. From a Victoria lamp paper (courtesy Christer C) ...... Similar gravity style lamps Hasag ............ and the Eckel & Glinicke "Perpetua" Among Lux papers an unknown Victoria Lamp version is seen. I have not seen or heard about that verion lamp. Anyone? The "one-legged" Victoria ..........
Thanks Jeff! A link for the "nerdy" is this to a clip from 1913 of the AB Lux factory in Stockholm, where you can see this lamp beeing processed in 1.28 and 5.20! Lux verkstad vid Essingen - Stockholm 1913 - Stockholmskällan /Conny
Thanks for the post, @Conny C. What a beautiful lamp and a fine example. It’s wonderful to see it running. An example of a “one-legged” Lux Victoria turned up last year in Ballarat, Australia. It’s not complete, and is owned by another collector, but I will, with permission, put some photos of it in the Reference Gallery. Cheers Tony
Another superb lamp and informative description. Thanks again @Conny C for delighting me with another exotic lamp!
