Hi all, Here's my latest restoration, the "Semi Pressure Stand" lamp by the New Speciality Mfg. Co. Council Bluffs, Iowa. This is the sibling lamp to my other ´Speciality´ lamp, the "Semi Pressure Single" hanging lamp, posted earlier 36508[/ATTACH] .......the two known New Specialty Mfg. Co. lamps - Semi Pressure "Single" (hanging) lamp and Semi Pressure "Stand" lamp.................... and the 1903/04 patent..........
Thanks David, In the picture with the unlit mantle I used a Veritas gas mantle. Later in the light up I used an Aladdin upright gas mantle. I bit smaller and not optimal, but these you can replace by new made ones. The old bigger gas mantles are hard to find and I wouldn´t waste too many as there are only a few left in my mantle box. /Conny
Wow! What a stunning lamp. These are not really beautiful, but they look cool in a sort of complicated, almost technical, way. I also like how it looks as it was sort of japanned. That's not a sight you see too often on "our" lamps. We would appreciate if you also would like to attach those "before images" you posted at your initial post of it at the Coleman forum. After all this is a gallery meant for reference, and as I always try to stress: the pictures taken before anything is done to a lamp is in many (if not most?) cases the best for reference of how a lamp originally looked.
Christer - On CCF the thread category is more explicit "before and after projects", but I see your point in having also before/after shots also here in the reference gallery; although also NOS and nearly unfired lamps are shown here. Here is an example of a problem you can run into, in a restoration process. I have a couple of these old overhead generator (this one included) lamps, with a big curved mixing tube and all of them have been missing the end "gas burner". The tube connection for the gas burner and mixing tube have all been of different diameter, so each company seems to have had there own measures, no standardization at all back then :-( ! So you have to fix your own customized "gas burner" to get the lamp functional. For this Speciality lamp I had to slaughter four old gas burners/burner parts to mix together a successful unit. First a burner gallery emptied out of the original centre tube with the wrong dimension, then connect a centre burner tube with the right fitting for the connection to the lamp mixing tube, added with a flame spreader gauze and ring for the tube, taken from a third burner and finally connect a part with a screw for holding the mantle rod ( the mantle rod then new made from a steel rod). When you do succeed with your effort you are given the reward that makes you willingly come back over and over again :-) ! /Conny .....and before images.............
This type of lamp is only of mild interest to me but still nice to see one restored and running. The history is of great interest however and I did a lot of work on this company. One point though. I made the same mistake a while back and spelt the name wrong. It is not the English Speciality as in the title here but spelt the American way Specialty. ::Neil::
Changed to specialty in the title (on both lamps in this sub-forum). Thanks for the additional pictures Conny.
