1940's 250/400 mercury street light, with magnetic arc deflector

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lampy

[22 Dec, 2015 at 08:24 PM]

this amazing old relic was found completly intact, has silvered reeded glass side mirror reflectors, theres a tapping on the arc delfector for 250 or 400 watt lamps

Danny

[22 Dec, 2015 at 08:28 PM]

now that is a absoloutely amazing find!!

Kev

[22 Dec, 2015 at 09:53 PM]

First lantern I've ever seen with intact arc deflector! Surprised

Andy

[22 Dec, 2015 at 10:15 PM]

Incredible find! Complete with Osram GEC lamp too. I hope both lamp and deflector work fine.

AngryHorse

[22 Dec, 2015 at 10:51 PM]

That has lasted well, amazing the glass reflectors have survived intact Shocked

FrontSideBus

[22 Dec, 2015 at 11:07 PM]

That's quite something!

lampy

[23 Dec, 2015 at 04:46 PM]

yes it was so clean inside, you'd have thought it had been in every day use, yet i recon this has not worked since about 1980. Just goes to show how good an asbestos gasket really was

Dave

[09 Jan, 2016 at 11:37 PM]

Now that is what you call a find, in an astonishing condition too. Absolutely amazing save there. This'll clean up absolutely amazingly well.

dor123

[26 Jul, 2024 at 04:12 AM]

It would be interesting how the arc in the lamp would look like with the magnetic deflector.

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