Goldstar

Just wondered where Goldstar lanterns (petromax copies) were made, can't find much about them on the internet. India or China maybe?
Trevor

 

Almost certainly India. I know of examples with a swastika and that is an Indian symbol. Hindu maybe? ::Neil::

 

Thanks for that, the one I saw had a Swastika stamped on the pump cap.

 

Yes I know there was one on the Bay recently. I assume they are from before the mid 1930s. ::Neil::

 

That's the one, didn't realize it was as old as that. No bids on it though...

 

Yea I know too much money. ::Neil::

 

Yes, £60 - I heard the seller woke up with his face in his bowl of cornflakes...

 

I believe you are right with the swastika being of Hindu origin,it is a good luck symbol, but there is one main difference from the nazi use, that is that the hooks of the cross were reversed by the nazi's.

 

No they were the same, that reversal story is an urban myth and quite wrong. The Nazi party just used an existing logo they did not adapt it in any way. The same symbol was used in the UK by the Boy Scouts up to about 1935 for their medals and thanks badges. Always the same symbol which they copied from the Indian type and it was the same as the Nazi version so the Scouts dropped it in 1935 because it had become a political logo. At the time it had no unfortunate connotations it was just political and therefore had to go. Those old Scout medals are now rare because when the Scouts replaced the swastika with the Fleur-de Lys they offered to exchange any that had been issued and many were so the old ones are few and hard to find. ::Neil::

 

I have a GOLDSTAR carburettor of a hanging lamp like Petromax 834.
He comes from India.

Regards, Reinhard

 

Today I have the Goldstar generator installed in my spanish boat lamp.
Because the lamp was once electified in Spain,the mixing chamber was sawed.(Ditmar size).
So I solder a 250 CP mixing chamber to the old mixing tube. With silver solder.Melting temperature is 800 degrees Celsius.Brass is 900 degrees Celsius.
The lamp (probably spanish Columbus) has been running for several hours in my lamp kitchen.
The Goldstar generator from India is good.
I installed a generator plugging as Mr. Ludwig of the old Petromaxforum once described to me.
I also pay tribute to the Indian workers who once reproducted such generators with the simplest of means.

Regards Reinhard

 

Reinhard, It's good to see you have got it going. Congratulations

 

Thank you

 

The swastika is still used in India, I saw it molded into bricks at a construction site when I was there a few years ago.

 

Here's another one on a fuel cap which a previous owner used on my Petromax 821 Baby:-

 

I believe some of the North American Indian tribes in my country also view this as a good luck symbol.