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Category No. 10
Repairs, parts, fakes and keeping a collection safe. 6 posts.
Most of what we collect is safe on a shelf. A few bits can bite when you strip, clean or post them. Advice from makers, museums and Australian agencies.
Read more about Collector safety check: asbestos, radium, live caps and old batteries →A summary of the German collectors’ club GAG’s guide to fake miners’ lamps: what gets faked, where the fakes come from and the checks that still help.
Read more about Fakes and reproductions: what to check before you buy a miner’s lamp →The brass Teale is a radiator/sump heater, and I suspect the steel lamp with the circular lock was used as one too. The steel lamp had had the locking ring and the…
Read more about When is a miner’s lamp not a miner’s lamp? Part 2: the Teale →Pictured are two Indian lamps, JK Dey, 13, Old China Bazaar Street, Calcutta (now Kolkata). The one on the left is a non-relighter, the one on the right is a battery ignition,…
Read more about Glass Repairs 101: an Indian J.K. Dey lamp →The following writing was submitted by Bosuns Mate (a pseudonym) in NSW Australia. Bosuns Mate is an avid collector and restorer of miner’s lamps in NSW Australia. In this post, Bosuns Mate…
Read more about Total restoration of a Protector GR6S →Folks, introducing Dušan Mesároš from Slovakia to you this week. A time-defying craftsman of parts for age-old miners lamps. Many lamp collectors know Dušan as their go-to guy when it comes…
Read more about Dušan Mesároš: a time-defying craftsman of parts for old miners’ lamps →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
