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Help me find out more about this bulb! « on: October 21, 2018, 07:25:13 AM » Author: savsav
 Hi!
Greetings to lamp collectors and connoisseurs in this field!
Help me find out more about this bulb! In what years were they released?
Thank!

 
 
 
 
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Re: Help me find out more about this bulb! « Reply #1 on: October 21, 2018, 10:10:19 AM » Author: funkybulb
you should post that Beauty on the gallery

that oldie with a Thompston-houston base
it was use back then to avoid Patent  infringements
with Edison bases lamps back in late 1880s  to
1920s  back them it was  a mess as there were
few bases around that time and it like having a format
war on  lamp bases.  until Edison and Swan base style
took over. 
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Re: Help me find out more about this bulb! « Reply #2 on: October 29, 2018, 02:08:50 AM » Author: Silverliner
No funkybulb, the base you see in the pics above is called the Westinghouse base. It simply snapped into the socket as you pushed it in. The Thompson-Houston base had a female screw thread in the bottom of the base. Both were common alternatives to the Edison base.

Savsav, your bulb looks to date to the 1890s sometime. Very nice bulb, looks new old stock or close so. I agree, you should post it on L-G.
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Re: Help me find out more about this bulb! « Reply #3 on: October 29, 2018, 08:52:49 AM » Author: funkybulb
Thanks silverliner.  I quite get  bases mix up on those early ones.  but still a cool bulb
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Re: Help me find out more about this bulb! « Reply #4 on: October 29, 2018, 03:38:08 PM » Author: savsav
 Thanks Silverliner!  :)
I knew that the first answer was not correct for the base of the lamp and. I decided to wait from my colleagues for the correct and more detailed answer!
I have been collecting lamps since 1984. Here is part of my collection: http://ixbt.photo/?id=user:1004332  ;)
I'm sorry there is no at this point in time to start posting photos of my lamps on this forum.
Thank!
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Re: Help me find out more about this bulb! « Reply #5 on: July 28, 2019, 07:21:51 AM » Author: savsav

savsav, your bulb looks to date to the 1890s sometime

  Hi!
During all this past time I managed to find not a lot of information: 1) a photograph of a lamp with carbon filament, as allegedly written by the same company and time https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_Electric_Improvement_Company_incandescent_light,_carbon_single_arch_filament,_c._1894_-_DSC06547.JPG
2) Antique catalogs for many publications on lighting, etc https://dropmefiles.com/HaP2k
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Re: Help me find out more about this bulb! « Reply #6 on: July 18, 2020, 07:33:50 AM » Author: savsav
  Hi!
During all this past time I managed to find not a lot of information: 1) a photograph of a lamp with carbon filament, as allegedly written by the same company and time https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_Electric_Improvement_Company_incandescent_light,_carbon_single_arch_filament,_c._1894_-_DSC06547.JPG
2) Antique catalogs for many publications on lighting, etc https://dropmefiles.com/HaP2k

  I noticed her 'sister' on autskion: https://www.ebay.com/itm/293652338832  8)
There is my confirmation on the label that the lamps of this company were made in Philadelphia !  ;)
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