Hi all, Here is another "giant" American old-timer lamp; the No.1 Table & Hanging lamp from Doud Lighting Company, Chicago, around 1910/12. No real paperwork for this company except a couple of ads in Popular Mechanics, so hard to tell about specifics of this lamp. Twin mantle burner, probably gasoline fed and ca 200/300 CP light output (jet orifice 0,16/0,17 mm). The cleaning needle mechanism is operated by chains on an arm, like on my Imperial Brass Co. lamp. The lamp is presented in an ad drawing in 1912 Popular Mechanics along with Doud Lighting hollow wire lamps. In that ad drawing, it seems like a similar shade as for the Coleman Reading lamp and when tried on, it fits. I'm am lucky to have four nr.74 shades, so this one will stay on this Doud lamp. It arrived in a reasonable good shape, was missing the shade and the cleaning needle with carrier. I made one from bits and an acupuncture needle. Resulted in a crude looking, but fine functional " thing", and after assembling the lamp it run well on the first try. A funny thing is that you must tighten the top finial screwed onto the burner casting, otherwise you loose pressure as the dome shaped burner casting is hollow both ways up and down. I haven't seen that on any other of my American old-timer lamps. /Conny ........1912 popular Mechanics Magazine ad ......before image........
I like this lamp, it is beautiful ! It's a master restoration again Congratulations Conny. Very sincerely, Best regards, Titoo
Beautiful lamp and an impressive restoration. How on earth did you manage to restore that tank and top chrome plating given the initial state?
@Conny C That is a very fine restoration and the lamp seems to be working beautifully. I’m in Canada travelling, and working off my iPhone, so I can’t get very good fine detail on some of the photos - but I have a question: is the finial the same as the one on this Gloria (link below)? Gloria Oxo Gas (circa 1913+) Cheers Tony
"- but I have a question: is the finial the same as the one on this Gloria (link below)?" Tony - the same type and very similar, but not exactly the same. This type of finial can be seen on Thomas Kerosafe and Gloria table lamps, and maybe others. /Conny
Very impressive lamp Conny! How does it compare in size to other table lamps like the Gloria, etc? I especially like the crown on top.
@phaedrus42 Thanks Phil, This Doud table lamp is a bit higher than the average sized table lamp as Coleman CQ, Nulite, Akron and others. The Doud lamp is 65 cm and the average lamps are around 50 cm. Here compared to a Nulite 110M and an Akron 102 G .... ......but is kind of dwarfed by the Allen Sparks Giant lamp and also others like the Imperial Brass lamp...... Several of the very early table lamps were promoted as "reading lamps". Maybe the higher lamps brought a larger illuminated area than the lower ones, or maybe actually "size matters" ! /Conny
