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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #30 on: March 26, 2016, 03:16:39 PM » Author: ace100w120v
As far as I know, mine would be a GE 25w "Mazda" clear incandescent.  Seen here:  http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2337&pos=13&pid=84716

As far as I know, my oldest linear fluorescent would be this:  http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=2624&pos=31&pid=80066
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #31 on: March 27, 2016, 03:54:18 PM » Author: Solanaceae
Lemme see here...
MV: Ken-Rad and ITT 250w /C and /W respectively. 1965
Incan: westy (Kmart). Mid 70s
HPS: Norelco 35w from 80s
Fluoro: ge f20t12/d from 1954
MH: 250w ushio from the 00s
MV ballast: GE 175w 240v and GE potted 100w 120v from early 60s
HPS ballast: Postline from late 90s or early 00s
Fluoro ballast: several f20 chokes from the 70
MH ballast: advance from the 70s or 80s
Hid fixture: LM gumball from 40s or 50s.
Fluoro Fixture: crome f14 Art Deco strips from 40s or 50s
Incan fixture: twin table lamps from 30s
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #32 on: May 21, 2017, 02:40:27 PM » Author: radiohead
hello, 
I wonder if anyone can advise me on what I have.. its a room heater with 2 Cryselco bulbs (105v 250w) with numbers 6027 on them and 2 roberstson no 8s (105v 250w).  I havnt been aboe to find anything else like it online..
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #33 on: May 21, 2017, 04:51:11 PM » Author: HomeBrewLamps
err, I don't know to be honest but i have a lot of bulbs I mostly scavenge them
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #34 on: May 22, 2017, 11:27:05 AM » Author: BGPatterson
One of these may be the oldest of mine. Does anyone know when approximately it was made? I'm not sure if the Westinghouse or the Laco is older.
http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=112766&fullsize=1

http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=107750&fullsize=1




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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #35 on: May 22, 2017, 03:15:21 PM » Author: Alex
My oldest lamps:
http://www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=128763&fullsize=1
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #36 on: May 22, 2017, 04:16:37 PM » Author: socketgeek63
I'll add in more 1930s GE type D in colored versions as well especially after an recent eBay score that included several orange ones just over a month ago.
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #37 on: May 27, 2017, 06:51:38 PM » Author: M250R201SA
I have a 1990 GE 175 watt Mercury and a 1988 Philips 250w Comfort lamp.  Other than that, most of my lamps are from recent times.  I used to have some older lamps, but when I moved to Wisconsin, they disappeared somehow when my parents moved and packed up what I left behind.  They may be in my shed buried underneath a bunch of junk.
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #38 on: November 13, 2017, 09:17:32 PM » Author: CEB1993
I have a West German GE inside frost A19 incandescent.  It had to have been made during or before 1989 when the Berlin Wall split Germany.  It's a great bulb, in my permanent collection.  Here I am at the Berlin Wall on my trip to Germany last year.
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #39 on: November 14, 2017, 07:44:24 AM » Author: HU112
Oldest:
Philips 40W outside-frosted flame (Sep 1981)



Some other oldies in my collection:
Sylvania Sylvalux 40W soft white (~1983)


Thorn 20W T12 white (Aug 1988)


Sylvania F20W/W-RS (Sep 1988)


Osram HQL 50W (Nov 1988)


Sylvania F20W/133-RS (Nov 1989)
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #40 on: March 17, 2018, 11:32:36 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
my oldest incandescent: a pair of sylvania 300w ps-30 mogul based on the logo are 1942-1959 oldest merc is a 250w BT-28 H-250-j5 date code 29? color improved lamp from mid ro late 50's? oldest streetlight is either my form 400 or  the revere clamshell that the 250 is from
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #41 on: March 18, 2018, 10:46:53 AM » Author: LandryB
One of these:
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #42 on: March 21, 2018, 11:17:28 AM » Author: Mandolin Girl
One of these:
You lucky man.!!
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #43 on: March 21, 2018, 11:24:20 AM » Author: Rommie
I'm not altogether sure, I don't have much really old stuff, possibly this carbon filament lamp dates from the 1940's, but I'm not sure. There is nothing on the etch that suggests a date code, nor is there any engraving or markings of any kind on the cap or stem press. If anyone can help in narrowing it down, I'd be very grateful  :)

The oldest lamp I have that I know the date of for certain is this June 1950 GE 1000W incandescent lamp.

Edit: the oldest one that I can positively date now is a German WW2 blackout lamp, thanks to Rigo for this one  ;D
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Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #44 on: March 23, 2018, 05:21:20 PM » Author: Jovan
Incandescent
tt 40w orange color 1980s
Tesla 100w 1990s
Fluorescent
Tesla FC DS 20W 1980s or 1990s
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