Gloria, marked "Auer Feyer"

Hello,

here is my AUER FEYER lamp.
I have no idea where the lamp was built.
Interestingly generator and pump valve.

Please help me with the Indentification!

Thank you! Andreas

 

Perhaps Auer is a reference to Carl Auer von Welsbach.

 

From Spain, Mr. Andrea Lampenlos?

I have two Laterans with a nearly identical Top .

 

Hello Karli,

… please picture!

Andreas

 

Very smart looking lantern!

 

That was made in Chicago USA by the Gloria Light Company at some time in the 1920s. The parts are quite distinctive although I have not see this particular model before. It is very like a model R but that is a torch lighting lamp with a filler/inlet valve and yours has a match lighting generator and a built in pump. An interesting lantern that will get added to the lists in the PLC.

Here is an image of a Gloria model R. Lamp and image are owned by Terry Marsh in Chicago.



You can see this is the same basic lantern but with torch lighting generator and without a pump.


Your lamp has obviously been exported by Gloria for re branding as Auer and I would assume that will mean somewhere in continental Europe. We have an Auer which appears to be Italian already in the galleries but I supect there is a German retailer behind the Auer brand. ::Neil::

 

Hi Neil,

Thanks for your information.
I found the lamp in Spain. As you have written, the lamp was probably built by Gloria Light Company for Europe.

Greetings Andreas

 

There are a few Auer mantles in the mantle gallery and they seem to be Austrian made. That sort of suggests the Auer brand is Austrian or perhaps German. ::Neil::

 

Maybe it was from the period where Austria were a part of Germany.



Claus C

 

Auer is a German company, although founded by an Austrian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auergesellschaft

But I'm not sure if Auer Feyer would be the same Auer company.