Hi all, This is one of my gravity lamps, the nr. 337 Lyra lamp of Louis Runge Berlin. I found this lamp some years ago and it originally comes from a doctor’s home in a remote small village in the north woods of Sweden. A year later I found a Louis Runge catalogue sheet with exactly that lamp, but it isn’t dated. Other Runge gravity lamps I’ve seen come from the turn of the 19th /20th century, so my guess is that this a bit later, maybe 1905-1910, considering the design of the harp that bears many signs of the Jugendstil/Art Deco period. Light output for this gasoline fed lamp is estimated to 100 CP. /Conny
Conny. Brillant fantastic light on pic. Because of the bright light, the appearance of the shadows on the wall. thanks Conny. Gunsoo
John – I agree with you that they made more of it design wise back then. Technical and burner wise this lamp is not any different than the gasoline wick fed mantle burners made by Tito Landi and others. Jeff - I also agree with you that this lamp would grace my home. The problem is where to hang it. I’m out of appropriate ceiling space for it , so it’s stuffed with the card board boxes in a closet. /Conny
