Collecting, preserving and sharing the history of miners’ lamps
Made to get Bisbee’s miners off candles: a Justrite Little Giant with the mine’s own name cast into the side.
Read more about Lamp of the Day: Justrite “Copper Queen” carbide hand lamp, USA, 1912 →A small brass carbide cap lamp sold in Australia around 1910. Paperwork says it was made here, but nobody knows who made it.
Read more about Lamp of the Day: the Demon Strike Light, Australia’s mystery carbide cap lamp →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 →The Old Protector model 176 oil lamp, dating back to before 1911, appears to have undergone modifications around 1913 to comply with the Coal Mines Act 1911. Historical research indicates that while…
Read more about Old Protector Model 176 oil lamp →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
