Collecting, preserving and sharing the history of miners’ lamps
A Protector GR6 with its Cortonwood pit check, a Dufrane officials’ lamp from Charleroi, a Lietz clinometer and a brass SEMOI electric lamp.
Read more about Market Watch, 3–4 November 2026: a Cortonwood GR6, a Belgian porion lamp, a Lietz clinometer and a SEMOI →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 South African-made Cambrian-type lamp, an Arras Type P, a NIFE electric lamp from Pelaw Main, a Casartelli dial, a Stonehouse sign and a 594-lot collection.
Read more about Market Watch, 2 November 2026: a Boksburg lamp, an Arras, a Hunter Valley NIFE and a big US 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 →An A-H-G gas tester with its key, a Richard Johnson, Clapham & Morris lamp in Tamworth, a Naylor bi-fold and a wartime ARP lamp.
Read more about Market Watch, 31 October 2026: a gas tester, two Wigan lamps and an ARP blue glass →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 →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
