Hello Colleagues, What do I have here? It sais "Gral No1" and has the Hasag name and logo. But the all knowing internet does not give a clue . Some parts are missing. How did the alcohol come upwards to the burner? It does not appear to be pressurized, or am I mistaken? When was it made? I am grateful for any information. Greetings, Gerard
I assume you have a large cotton strand wick inside that cylindrical thing above the tank. Have a look at the last post here at the Lamp guild.
Hi Gerard, Nice catch you have there, not many of these have surfaced so far. What you´ve got is a Hasag Invert Gral 1 hanging lamp (Lyre Lamp), made around 1910, give or take a year or two. In 1910 Hugo Schneider has a catalogue full of alcohol burner/lamps HS1/HS2 wick burners and Lipsia hanging lamp. No Gral 1 in that catalogue but in another contemporary catalogue (O. Weichman) you can see Gral 1 burner lamps from a single invert mantle table lamp to chandeliers with up to 3 Gral 1 burners. The fuel feeding is supported by a wick and pre heating fuel comes down by pouring alcohol in the top of the cylinder chamber sitting on the donut tank (you can see the thin tube going into the inside of the burner to the pre heater cup). I´ve got a burner for an inverted hanging Gral 1 lamp as well as a complete Gral 1 table lamp(maybe missing the diffuser shade). /Conny
Hello Christer, Thanks for the information and the link. The wick has disappeared, due to electrocution. But now the configuration makes sense to me. Gerard
Hello Conny. I'll try to make some pictures from inside that chamber. It appears that preheating my model does not work by pouring in alcohol from above. That would end into the tank. Could there be a little pump in the burner assemblage, connected with that hollow wire?
Hi Gerard, It was a guess from how my table lamp burner works. It is a tube from the top lid that goes down to a pre heater reservoir. Obviously your burner are pre heated in another fashion. Pump? It says "with pump" in the catalogue for both the hanging lamp version as well as for the table lamp version I have. No pump on mine though, I´m certain. Probably some parts are missing or destroyed by the electrocuting process on yours. Maybe a pump is integrated in that cylindrical chamber holding the wick. It seems there is a part on the other side of the tank that could be some part of that pump. /Conny
Hi All, I found that pump. It sits in that kettle where the wick also should be. Just a little plunger sank into the bottom of the tank. It can be operated with the knob on top of the kettle lid. Heavily damaged though But, no reason to complain; the lamp looks good and even the glass is there .
It looks so goood Gerard It is the finest lamp with that burner princip I have ever seen here - and it beats the rest so bad. You did a very fine clean-up and you are very lucky owning this rare rare lamp Is it possible you would try to light it , then please show it here. If you suddently get allergic to exactly this lamp, then I am willing to take away you troubles anytime Claus C
Unfortunately I will not be able to light it. The bottom of the tank, were the pump rests, is removed. A hole was drilled through the burner assembly and the ceramic burner has gone. Several small holes in the burner assembly, that appear to be used to hold little screws are empty, together with whatever they should hold. The preheater ring is leaking and the wick is gone. So is the main feeder wick. And the tank shows several stress cracks. Moreover, I'am rather clumsy, trying to repair this all would do more damage than good But further it is OK and I'am very happy with it. It is even allowed in my sitting room
