Little bit of an older lamp I
do believe! At least the style of the old corrugated
cardboard packaging suggests. Unfortunately, the company
Kingston Lamps Limited, once based in Hull appears to be defunct
now. At least a quick internet search didn't reveal any trace
of their continued existence.
Coloured
lamps aren't all that unusual, though ones using coloured glass rather
than just a coating of some description are a little more
scarce. This one is one of the nicer ones, with a deep
emerald green envelope which is virtually impossible to capture
properly on the camera, the preference of the camera being to render it
as simply being black. Ah, the joys of digital
cameras. The most accurate representation of the colour is in
the second last photograph below which shows the internal structure of
the lamp.
The
structure both internally and externally of this lamp is virtually
flawless, the only thing marring its appearance being a bit of excess
cement from when the cap and bulb were joined.
Figuring
out the ratings of this one took a bit of guesswork, as there are no
markings whatsoever on the lamp, and the packaging doesn't show any
information other than who made it. Given that on our mains
voltage (246.9V this evening), the wattmeter showed it to be drawing
just over 55W of power, I'm going to assume that it would have been
badged as a 60W lamp.
The
colour is quite unlike that from any other lamp I have, being quite dim
as you would expect, a deep forest green colour, quite accurately
represented in the second photograph below. Of course, with
the lamp being made of coloured glass, this lovely colour would have
been maintained throughout the life of the lamp.
This
lamp gets filed under the "technically very ordinary, but visually very
pretty" category I think.
If
anyone has any information on the current status or the history of the
company behind this lamp, I would be most grateful to hear of this so
that I could add the relevant information to this page.
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