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Oldest lamp in your collection? « on: July 29, 2007, 07:55:06 PM » Author: TudorWhiz
What are your oldest lamp in your collection of each kinds and is in working condition???

For mine is

Incandescents: Westinghouse 16 candle power 230 volts: 1900s
Fluorescent tube: Three Sylvania's F15T8: November 1945
Compact Fluorescent: (base part only) General Electric 7-9 watt Magnetic ballast: April 1991
Mercury Vapor: Westinghouse Shrunked Seal end arc tube 400 watt EH-1: Early 1950s
High Pressure Sodium: Sylvania 150 watt HPS: September 1981
Metal Halide: Sylvania 250 watt Horz only MH: April 1990
Ceramic Metal Halide: Philips 39 watt PAR: September 11, 2001

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Oldest Streetlight of all: Westinghouse OV-20: Early Stamped Alunimum version with flattened refractor: Between 1947-1952

Oldest Cobrahead Mercury Vapor Streetlight: Westinghouse OV-14B Silverliner: 175 watt Canadian model smaller version of OV-25 Flat bottom Silverliner (has a flat bottom too!): 1957

Oldest High Pressure Sodium orginal Ballasted Cobrahead: McGraw Unidor 175: 100/150 watt boxy appearance fixture: September 1976
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 01:38:05 PM » Author: Silverliner
For mine:

Oldest incandescent: 1895ish 52v hairpin lamp
Oldest tungsten incandescent: 1910 Mazda cage filament
Oldest fluorescent: Brass end capped pre-war GE and Westy F15T8s (don't know exact date of make)
Oldest mercury vapor: 1943 BTH Mazda 400w MA/V medium pressure lamp
Oldest quartz clear mercury: 1950 Westinghouse 400w E-H1 BT-20
Oldest coated mercury: 1962ish Westinghouse 175w /C
Oldest clear metal halide: 1981 Sylvania MS400/HOR
Oldest coated metal halide: 1976 Sylvania MH400/C/BD clearender
Oldest HPS: 1975 GE LU250/BD
Oldest CFL: 1980s Yorkville 20w bullet shaped lamp
Oldest CMH: 1997 Philips 39w PAR-30 made in Belgium
Oldest street light: Early 50s Form 109
Oldest fluorescent fixture: 1939-1941 Hemco green RLM 2x 40w preheat industrial unit
Oldest incandescent fixture: a simple bare paper lined brass socket on an asbestos insulated wire for hanging light applications. Circa 1920, came with 1920 100w GE lamp.
Oldest mercury cobrahead: 1957 Westinghouse OV-14B
Oldest HPS cobrahead: 1981 Westinghouse Tudor full cutoff
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #2 on: August 01, 2007, 06:58:41 PM » Author: FGS
My oldest bulb in my collection is either the Sylvania f15t8 CW (Nov 1966) or the Westy f30t8 CW (Between Jan 1965 to Dec 1969)
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #3 on: August 03, 2007, 12:36:35 AM » Author: SeanB~1
Oldest would be the box of carbon filament lamps, pre 1939.
There were some 1960's lamps, but they went to Sailormoon fo0r his collection.
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #4 on: November 23, 2007, 09:41:58 PM » Author: fran4001
Hmm, let's see:
Mercury- A late 50's Radiant brand 175 I think
HPS- some late 70s Sylvania 100 and 150w
MH- an early 80s GE Multivapor 175
Streetlighting incandecent- lots of 40s/50s GE Mazda 103, 189, 202, 327 and up
Domestic incandescent- I'm dumb here, but presumed early 1900s pointy-tipped misc. stuff
Fluorescent- 50s Sylvania F40CW, 60s GE Mainlighters
Probably more I'm forgetting!
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #5 on: November 24, 2007, 10:58:24 AM » Author: TudorWhiz
Hmm, let's see:
Mercury- A late 50's Radiant brand 175 I think
HPS- some late 70s Sylvania 100 and 150w
MH- an early 80s GE Multivapor 175
Streetlighting incandecent- lots of 40s/50s GE Mazda 103, 189, 202, 327 and up
Domestic incandescent- I'm dumb here, but presumed early 1900s pointy-tipped misc. stuff
Fluorescent- 50s Sylvania F40CW, 60s GE Mainlighters
Probably more I'm forgetting!

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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #6 on: November 24, 2007, 12:31:34 PM » Author: fran4001
Hey Jace! Thanks for the welcome. Sorry for the generalities with the list. I could probably date the lamps better if I go out in the garage and dig them up. The good thing about the 70s and 80s stuff is I handled it, purchased it or installed it while I was working at Penna. Power And Light while working there! I was lucky to have worked there in the 80s and got to keep alot of great old lamps, fixtures, photocontrols, arms, you name it. They let me take alot of the old fixture catalogs and photos from the archives too. Basically a dream job. Nobody had any sense of the historic nature of some of the stuff, and I think they thought I was nuts for wanting the stuff!
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #7 on: July 20, 2008, 02:17:10 AM » Author: GE M-400A1
1973 Sylvania GTE Metalarc 1000W

1993 Sylvania 50W MH

1996 Sylvania Cool White Flo. Tube!
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #8 on: December 07, 2008, 06:02:38 PM » Author: Foxtronix
- Incandescent: Maybe an old 10W appliance lamp from GE.

- CFL: My OSRAM 15W lamp from the late 80s

- Fluorescent: (I'm sure you know... :P)

- HID: My EYE 125W mercury lamp

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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #9 on: January 01, 2009, 01:44:20 PM » Author: form109
Incandescent:Westinghouse 25 watt red colortone bulb (No Legible Date Code Found)
HID:Regent H39-KF175-R 175 watt clear mercury vapor lamp (October,2006)
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #10 on: January 01, 2009, 03:10:33 PM » Author: TudorWhiz
Form109: where's the dates?   
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #11 on: January 01, 2009, 03:45:56 PM » Author: form109
fixed it! 8)
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #12 on: January 01, 2009, 05:03:18 PM » Author: gmercury2000
Medium press. merc- 400w GE BH1 Early 1950's
High press. merc- 250w GE AH5 October 1943
Metal Halide Coated Westy 175w November 1979
High pressure sodium Sylvania 150w Late 1979
Fluorescent Sylvania 15w White 1945
Will have to get the rest!
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #13 on: January 01, 2009, 10:16:05 PM » Author: chapman84
GE Bonusline 400 watt mercury vapor January 1962
GE R175 175 watt mercury vapor date code "56"
GE R175 175 watt mercury vapor date code "50"
Sylvania 250 watt mercury vapor date code "02"
Westinghouse 250 DX Lifeguard 250 watt mercury vapor date code "00"



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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #14 on: February 04, 2010, 10:54:06 PM » Author: DieselNut
I have some good ones!  Not sure of the dates but the fixtures are from the 40s through the 70s!  I never knew the GE Mazda lamps were so old.  I have one in my old desk lamp.  I need to remove and put it away.  Got a lot of old Westinghouse F40T12 preheat lamps, Lots of "Mainlighter" GE F40s and the "Lifeline" Sylvania F40s.  Got some 6 foot "Powergroove" GE T17s and the 5 foot F90T17 preheat Westinghouse lamps (mogul bi pin)....ALL run with preheat ballasts.
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