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Davy, Clanny, Marsaut, Mueseler and the lamps that came after. 20 posts.
EM lamps turn up everywhere, and some get sold as rare German or French pit lamps. How to read the stamps, date the lamp and spot a copy or gift lamp.
Read more about Polish Elektrometal (EM) benzine lamps: reading the stamps and spotting the copies →Most old lamps reach us anonymous. This all-brass officials’ lamp still has its man, his certificate and 27 years at one pit.
Read more about Henry McCartney’s lamp: a Patterson B7 from Houghton Colliery →A few letters punched into brass tie this J.H. Naylor lamp to the Moss Hall Coal Company and the Maypole Colliery explosion of 1908.
Read more about A Naylor lamp stamped “M H C Co”, and Wigan’s worst pit disaster →A six-bar Watson Davy, a Biram’s Patent “Economy” and the Thornton Eloin: the three biggest single-lamp hammer prices we can find.
Read more about Record prices: the most expensive miners’ lamps ever sold at auction →A rare brass Eloin lamp by Thornton & Sons of Birmingham made £8,800 at Lay’s in Penzance. Here’s what it is and how to spot one.
Read more about Record lamp: Thornton & Sons “Eloin’s Improved” safety lamp, early 1850s →Wolf and Baxendale parts on one lamp, a relighter, cage-bar hasps and a puzzling bonnet extension.
Read more about 1910 Leeds Wolf-Patterson lamp: a fusion of Wolf and Baxendale →Patented in 1939 for Manchester Collieries, with spark ignition and an internal magnetic lock that didn’t always survive.
Read more about Pristine and never lit: the Protector MC40 →The J H Rothwell aluminium and brass utility lamp was crafted by W E Teale from Swinton, and it bore the badge of the former. J H Rothwell, a prominent ironmonger in…
Read more about J.H. Rothwell aluminium and brass utility lamp by W.E. Teale →An early Wigan-made Clanny from the biggest colliery owner on the Lancashire coalfield.
Read more about Early Clanny-type J.H. Naylor lamp, once owned by the Wigan Coal & Iron Company →This lamp, in remarkably well-preserved state, features an original blue oxide coating on the bonnet. It is a fully authentic specimen, complete with a stamped production number “No178” on the Cell, Cage,…
Read more about Protector Type HL (hand-lit) iron-bonnet lamp in exceptional condition →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
