The Lamp Room

The STATUS branded incandescent lamps that were made during pre 2009 and came in packaging of a gradient design. Were they good quality or were they always have been poorly made?

Most modern incandescent was crap. Status wasn't the best.

At EOL some of them would shoot out of the bases!

Status, unfused & poor quality, violent when EOL (except for 150 watt GLS for sme reason), I found fusing them down to 1 amp blew the fuse instead of a nasty EOL bang or shatter.

Are Status the same factory as the new Tungsram lamps (the made in India ones) ?

I have bought a few of the latter for interest. Have not lit any yet, but in one of them the wires in the cap are crossed.... No waiting till EOL

Not surprised - and update to this, I manged to get a 2 pack of candle SES bulbs that came in this style of packaging (solid green colour style)

The red and white packaged GLS lamps available in Home bargains a few years ago actually seem like reasonable quality lamps?
The ones I have appear well made and look to have twin wire link fusing in the stems so may actually be ok?
I have seen some status lamps, especially the candle etc. that only had a single fuse iirc so perhaps they upped their game with some of the more recent GLS.

These look very mich like they originate somewhere in eastern Europe, possibly Iskra ukraine?

Yes I hadn't thought of Iskra, Globe collector was thinking they could be either India or Indonesia on LG too so either way it seems they are not Chinese.
Being fitted with twin wire fuses it looks like they make actually be decent lamps too, plus they have aluminium caps.
They appear to be better lamps than the rather poor Maxim ones we have also seen with no fuses, single coil filaments and plated steel caps that rust.