I actually thought this would be a piece of cake for the german site Pelamforum to inform about. Auer automatically made me add "Licht" and I was thinking of the Austrian Carl Auer, Freiherr von Welsbach. But that might not be so. I did some search and no shape of the Austrian Auer Licht fits the "auer" printet on this lamp. I am not even sure it is a clean pressurelamp, while half of the burner is gone or even more. The lamp is humiliated and the original guts is replaced with bobbins and electrical wires not to mention the energysaving bulp. Still the lamp shows the Shell where I believe a tank were and and some copper/brass tubes probably for fuel. I can find nothing about Auer lamps but mantles and glass. The lamp is in poor shape and to make it worse there is 2 of them. The Shells left does give a good impression about the former glory of this lamp though. Does anyone know these pretty large beasts? Claus C
I wonder if they were originally gas lamps. The 'burner' reminds of the type of fittings used with gas.
Hi Claus there were a french manufacturer Société Auer. You can find an advert here : http://www.ultimheat.com/Museum/section2/1932%20AUER%20gaz%20d'essence%2020110715.pdf I don't know if this lamp is from this brand however
Hi Claus, I think many countries had an "Auer" company specialising in gas lighting. Here is an example from a 1913 Swedish Auer Co catalogue´. Not your lamp, but I think it is a gas lighting lamp you have. /Conny
I can see it could be a gas-lamp and possibly is. Auer did make mantles and glass, but I never actually ever did see any pressurelike or gaslamp with the Auer-logo on before this, so beside they sold "Auer-licht" to anyone, then they must have been producing at least lampparts too. I also miss to see some more burnerparts and controlhandles than the ones on the lamp: The controlhandles is a bit strangely constructed wiht a wingnut around a screw with a spring, as if it is possible to fineadjust the flow in some way and that fits gas-lamps well I think. It puzzels me that it has a tank, spoiled and emptyed, but still a tank with a slot for probably a handle. Note the Electric in the tank is mounted later. I know there existed some lowpressurized gas-lamps with tanks, but I have no idea how they looked and worked. Could it be such Normal gaslamps I know of do not have tanks. The burner also looks a bit strange to me. I didnt know gaslamps had a burner, just tubes almost straight down to the mantlecarriers. The lamps does not belong to me but I am asked to ask around. I can cuddle it any day I like though.
Need more photos of so called tank connections at top etc could be a gas regulator and on off switch . The controls on side are most likely gas flow and air mixture so you can set it without pulling the thing apart. Bob This is my 1910 Venus gas light 4 burner notice controls on outside
From the start I took it for a tank mounted with a later attached electrical coil for ex. mercury vapor lamps, but I see no violence done to the rim of the tank so I guess Wim and Lampdoc are right that this just might be a protective Shell? Very nice gas-lamp btw. The combination of materials also made me think that no engineer would make such a botched job and there fore later attached - but Rover cars did that too, mixing aluminium, iron and brass, so why not. The "thing" in the tank is also marked "England" I just cant see any of the holes in the tank fitting anything inside the tank, but I am still pretty sure you folks are right that this is a gaslamp and maybe the stuff inside actually was there from the start, with certain parts missing. At least it is enough for me to wipe the Photos out of my library. Claus C
Just fooling around I knocked over this one from a auction-site in Danmark. Same logo an also electrocuted to be seen here: http://www.lauritz.com/da/auktion/gammel-gadelampe-af-kobber-slutningen-af-1800-tallet/i3682598/# It is registrated as a old streetlight from the city, Silkeborg. Claus C
