Some pics of a gravity lamp burner I have been working on, still have a lot of fettling to do but we now have the first signs of life. Best guess for a date would be 1900 to 1905 ish.
@Conny C Apart from the damaged tank this is pretty much the entire lamp. The rest of it does not exist yet, but I am working on it.
@Conny C This lamp came to me as a pair. The other one is identical apart from the tank has a nameplate, both were missing the entire burner assembly's. All I can make out on the nameplate is Berlin.
Hi James, These are not Louis Runge lamps, but manufactured by "Gebrüder A. & O. Huff, Berlin. Gasoline lamps and very much in the style of Runge. I think your lamps are model nr. 301 or 302. I can´t make out which of the three butrner types is on your lamps. Information via Jörg Wekenmann, and this Huff catalogue is from 1914. I have two Huff lamps and they could be seen here ..... Unmarked, unknown hanging gravity lamp | Classic Pressure Lamps & Heaters and here ..... Unknown "torch" lamp | Classic Pressure Lamps & Heaters /Conny
@Conny C Thank you for the images from the catalogue, now I know what it should look like I can look for parts accordingly. These lamps were described as runge when I purchased them, this turned out to be a good thing. The runge patent drawing in one of your posts enabled me with the help of an old gas lamp burner and a centredraft oil lamp to get it running, an important milestone on the road to it's former glory. I can't tell which burner type or model number I have either. I suspect each burner type has the same generator underneath with maybee a different size jet. I can see no difference in the two generators that I have but perhaps the centre of the tanks with one having a nameplate and the other having an embossed decoration may represent one being a 301 and the other being a 302. Thanks again for the information, a great help. James
