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Oxweld & Justrite Uncle Sam Carbide Mining Lamps

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 500.00 USD
Oxweld & Justrite Uncle Sam Carbide Mining Lamps
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This lot features a Oxweld and a Justrite Uncle Sam carbide mining lamps. The lot features a Uncle Sam 306 Justrite cast aluminum hand lamp model # 306 6-hr UNCLE SAM with steel bail and hook, Spiral Feed, marked UNCLE SAM PAT. APP’L’D FOR on left side of bail and JUSTRITE MFG CO CHICAGO, USA on right side of bail (The Justrite Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, Illinois was formed in 1906 as an industrial fabricating company making special machinery and tools. With Frederick J. Becker as president, Justrite would become the most prolific manufacturer of carbide lamps for underground use and a name synonymous with the carbide lamp. In 1911, Becker realized the potential market for carbide mining lamps and supplies and along with his chief designer August L. "Augie" Hansen, they created a product name with one of the top reputations in carbide lamps. The first lamps manufactured and advertised by Justrite in their first known advertisements of 1912 were the No. 99 horizontal, wire feed brass cap lamp priced at one dollar with nickel plating at a dollar and a quarter, the No. 100 superintendent's lamp priced at a dollar and a half with nickel plating extra, and the rare No. 77 stick lamp priced at two dollars and 50 cents. Justrite continued to expand the product line and their facilities and in 1917 they announced the new "Uncle Sam" carbide hand lamps. The other lamp is a Oxweld Carbide Railroad Lantern, Brass and steel railroad lamp, 6 in. diameter at base, 10 1/4 in. tall, wood on handle, 4 in. dia. concave glass lens, marked OXWELD CARBIDE LANTERN - Brass and steel railroad lamp, 6 in. diameter at base, 10 1/4 in. tall, wood on handle, 4 in. dia. concave glass lens, marked OXWELD RAILROAD LAMP, NO. 2155, PATENT NO. 1605505 on top brass plate (Although clearly marked as a railroad lamp, it's highly likely that these lamps were also used underground. Patent No. 1605505 refers to the spring water feed mechanism awarded to John M. Brock of Brooklyn, NY on Nov. 2, 1926. Brock was one of the original founders of the Dewar Manufacturing Co. in 1914. Both lamps are in good to fair condition, with signs of wear.