Lamp Collector’s Resource Library


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Lamp Collector’s Resource Library

Old Lamp Catalogs on CD in Adobe

 

Includes Fifteen (15) period catalogs on USB drive, in searchable PDF format.  You can search by name, use the index in each catalog to search by page number, etc.

Lamp Collector’s Resource Library on USB Thumb Drive, $14.95

#1

  1. Goldberg Catalog, 1906, 257 pages.

  2. Goldberg Catalog, 1911 (German), 176 pages.

  3. Goldberg Chimney catalog, 20 pages.

  4. Macbeth Chimney Catalog, 1904, 60 pages.

  5. Macbeth Chimney Catalog #78, 110 pages.

  6. Miller Catalog #97, 34 pages.

  7. Miller Catalog Library & Hall Lamps

  8. Stoll (Stuttgart) catalog, 1889, 56 pages.

  9. Success Catalog #13, 47 pages.

  10. Veritas Catalog, 1933, 112 pages.

  11. Wild & Wessel Catalog, 1903, 65 pages.

  12. Ditmar (Austria) 1894 Catalog

  13. 1908 Pitkin & Brooks wicks & chimneys

  14. Conservation of Cupreous Metals

  15. Welsbach Encyclopedia of Gas Trade 1915

#2

  1. German Patents, 1877 - 1900, in PDF format. - Searchable!

  2. German Flame Spreaders 1909

  3. HASAG-Entwicklung & Produkte

  4. Picture, Wild & Wessel Lamp Factory in Berlin

  5. Wild & Wessel, German Language, 1894

  6. Technology Meets Art - Wild & Wessel history

  7. W&W Wessel History, by Emil Wild, Translated

#3

  • Hibbard Spencer Catalog, 1891.  Over 1400 pages.


  • The largest, most fascinating hardware catalog ever found. Virtually every tool available in 1891.  Makes old Sears and Wards catalogs look feeble by comparison.
  • The 175 page lamp section of the Hibbard Spencer catalog,  - Searchable!

#4

  1. Lamp and heater advertisements

  2. Center Draft Lamp Chimneys

  3. Center Draft Lamp Wicks

  4. Globe/Central W&W Vulcan Lamps

  5. Beginning Lamp Restoration

  6. Center Draft Lamp Manufacturers

  7. Kosmos & Kosmos-Brenner Lamps

  8. Lamp photos

  9. Student lamps

  10. US Lamp Patents (some)

  11. And much more

Over 1.47 GB's of fabulous catalogs from Victorian Lamp and chimney manufacturers PLUS history of many lamp manufacturers!   This is a wonderful collection in Adobe PDF format on a USB thumb drive.

 

 

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Lamp Wicks:

Center Draft Wicks - many available only from this Wick Shop. #0C, #0S, #0L, #1B, #1M, #1R, #2M, #2L, #2R, #2 P&A, #2B, #3L.

Standard lamp wicks and

Aladdin Lamp Wicks & parts

Kosmos Lamp Wicks

Smudge Pot - Tiki Torch Wicks

  • Toledo Torch & Some Dietz

Kindler Wicking

Auto Motor Primer Wicks

Lamp Chimneys:

Center Draft Lamp chimneys in borosilicate glass from Junior "Tiny" to Mammoth lamps.  #0M, Rayo Jr., 2 1/2", 2 5/8", 2 15/16", 3 1/8", 4", 4 1/2"

Standard glass lamp chimneys & Kosmos chimneys


Globe Vulcan (Central Vulcan) Chimneys
- 16''', 18''', 24''' & 30''' CHIMNEYS AND WICKS

Fabulous "Sans Rival" borosilicate chimney for 14''' Kosmos lamps

Student Lamp Sans Rival Chimney with 1 7/8" fitter!!!

Angle Lamp chimneys

Sonnenbrenner Lamp Chimneys

Lamp Chimneys - Dimension of nominal base diameter by make, model and "line".

Information on lamps:

Aladdin Lamp History

Aladdin Lamp Wicks & Chimneys,

Aladdin - Exploded burner views

Beginning Lamp Restoration

Center Draft Kerosene Lamps
(Photos, information and history, etc)

Center Draft Lamp manufacturers and brand names

Kosmos-Brenner lamps

Miller Lamps - a photo album

Photos of restored center draft lamps 

Victorian Era Student Lamps

USE, CARE and WICKING of CENTER DRAFT LAMPS

Early American Metal Font & Specialty Lamps

Flame Spreaders and "Smoke Consumers" from Alex Marrack

  • Vulcan, Imperial, Veritas, Belgian, Hinks, Messenger's, Young's Court, etc.

    Articles by Alex Marrack:

Registered Design Numbers For British Lamps

GERMAN PATENT LETTER CLUES - DRPs AND DRGMs, 1877 to 1945

Home Page

Site Index

Site Index for all things Perfection

Links to web sites for parts, information and restoration. 

Kindler Wicking For Oil Stoves & Ranges

Kerosene Heaters

Alphabetical list of most kerosene heaters and the proper wick, & cart checkout.

List by wick number and the heaters that fit them. (A helpful guide for buying on eBay)

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