Collecting, preserving and sharing the history of miners’ lamps
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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 →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 →One of the last classic German flame safety lamps, from the 1950s, with a battery-fired glow-wire igniter.
Read more about Friemann & Wolf Duisburg (FWD) Type 20502 →Before metal spark ignition prevailed in the safety lamp, several other systems also served to ignite the lamp from the inside. A proven system, which the Wolf company used for a long…
Read more about Impact ignition in safety lamps →“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”
