Here is a very ornate lilor table lamp i think the burner is a Bec Lor but please correct me if i am wrong must be 1920s i think. Not my lamp just fettling for my friend anyway lots to fix and burner nozzle and tube was missing but i had one i could copy so it was possible. Any way once repairs done it fired up like a good un. l
The last one was Michels jean i thought that was fancy but the work and details on this one must have been very expensive to produce Cheers pete
@pete sav Great work Pete. You made the burner nozzle you say? I need to make one for a project (not a Lilor). Could you describe how you went about it? Those holes look very regularly spaced - indexing head on your lathe? John
Hi john Yes i had to make a burner nozzle and tube from brass bar from scratch. First i drilled a hole in the inside of the nozzle then bored it out with a boring bar so i had a nice flat bottomed hole. Parted it off to lengh and reversed it in the chuck. I dont have a proper indexing unit for the lathe just a home made affair and i use a 60tooth circular saw blade for my index plate so each tooth is 6 degrees right so i put a hole every 4 teeth so it gave me 15 holes round the outer circle of holes in the nozzle. Needed 10 holes on next cicle of holes so thats every 6 teeth. Drilled the holes off the toolpost with a 18v drill mounted on it. I can take pictures of it all if you want to see the setup but be tomorrow now. Cheers pete The original nozzle had 1.75mm holes but i didnot have a drill that size only 2mm. So i used that till i did the central 6 holes on the nozzle. If you look at the flame shot in the first picture you can see 1mm holes gives a longer flame in the centre because of the smaller holes intresting Pete
@pete sav No need to take photos of the drilling rig Pete, you’ve described it perfectly and I can visualise the set-up. Ingenious, not least your judgement to compensate for the slightly larger drill with some 1mm holes in the centre zone - a perfect solution looking at the end result in illuminating the mantle. Superb. John
I wonder if the "embellishments" were done in the factory or by craftmen buying "plain" lamps and working on them ?
@Fireexit1 For me, the "embellishments" must have been done before the making, on a special decorated square tube. It would be impossible to do another way I think the lamps were proposed with such a decoration, as an more expensive option. You can see another decorated lamp (lilor n° 1931) here : https://www.lampepression.com/copie-de-france-liotard
Remarkable lamp and great work also the town gas indoor lamps were sometimes decorated/stamped/rolled so perhaps it was easier then to obtain such parts? That ‘Greek key’ motif is very distinctive.. Still a great deal of shaping and making to make everything work though.. The repousse work on the fount alone is wonderful there is an earlier thread that shows some paperwork of the glass or very similar thanks to lampenkueche
And it is certainly a luxury model, because it is the first time I see a barrel entirely decorated with a "Greek"; these Greeks are generally seen on ancient bas-reliefs
