Hi all, This is the "Triumph stand lamp" from the Brilliant Gas Lamp Company - Chicago. Years ago I bought a Triumph lamp and on arrival I found out that the fount was full of holes in the bottom plate, it also had a rusted cowl and the heat shield and cleaning needle was missing. A couple of month ago I was able to find another Triumph lamp with a complete burner including a cleaning needle, still missing the heat shield cover and this example came in a brass finish (maybe stripped nickel). I owe Tyler Connoly from BC in Canada a great thanks for buying me that lamp and he sent it to me on a 6 week trip. That healthy "new" fount was the key for the progress of this successful restoration. The fuel feed pipe and handle were shortened on this new fount so first I had to extend it by soldering a cut out of the "old fount" fuel feed pipe to the new one. A thorough cleaning of the parts was necessary and I was able to found a piece I could use as I cleaning needle heat shield. Made some pressure tests and then assembled the lamp and it fired up on the first try. I was lucky not needing to restore that intricate bended steel generator. Working well after 105 years, not bad at all. This Triumph stand lamp is a torch lit 300 CP gasoline fed lamp from around 1910. A very special burner design with a cleaning needle rod operating vertically from above. That cleaning needle arrangement is present also on early French burners by both Liotard Freres and Unic Lumiere. I haven't seen that present in other American lamp burner though. The Brilliant Gas Lamp Company made hollow wire and gravity lamps in the early 1900,s and from around 1910 one can see ads in the Popular Mechanics magazine of lamps with that Triumph burner; both gravity and hollow wire lamps and the portable Stand Lamp. According to notes from Neil McRae this company ceased to exist in 1917. No other paperwork than these ads is known and this is the first example of this lamp that I know of. The fount has similarities with the Best Light Co stand lamp I own but a great difference in the thread size of the filler plug/pump check valve. Also the Solar Light Co. used that type of fount on their "Nulite" stand lamp around 1910. /Conny .........and comparison Best light and Triumph lamp founts.....
Never seen one of these. This is a great find. Nice to see it working as well. Not bad for over 100 years old. ::Neil::
