Oldest lamp in your collection? « on: July 29, 2007, 07:55:06 PM » Author: TudorWhiz
What are your oldest lamp in your collection of each kinds and is in working condition??? For mine is Incandescents: Westinghouse 16 candle power 230 volts: 1900s Fluorescent tube: Three Sylvania's F15T8: November 1945 Compact Fluorescent: (base part only) General Electric 7-9 watt Magnetic ballast: April 1991 Mercury Vapor: Westinghouse Shrunked Seal end arc tube 400 watt EH-1: Early 1950s High Pressure Sodium: Sylvania 150 watt HPS: September 1981 Metal Halide: Sylvania 250 watt Horz only MH: April 1990 Ceramic Metal Halide: Philips 39 watt PAR: September 11, 2001 (you can add a streetlight if you want to) Oldest Streetlight of all: Westinghouse OV-20: Early Stamped Alunimum version with flattened refractor: Between 1947-1952 Oldest Cobrahead Mercury Vapor Streetlight: Westinghouse OV-14B Silverliner: 175 watt Canadian model smaller version of OV-25 Flat bottom Silverliner (has a flat bottom too!): 1957 Oldest High Pressure Sodium orginal Ballasted Cobrahead: McGraw Unidor 175: 100/150 watt boxy appearance fixture: September 1976
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	Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 01:38:05 PM » Author: Silverliner
For mine: Oldest incandescent: 1895ish 52v hairpin lamp Oldest tungsten incandescent: 1910 Mazda cage filament Oldest fluorescent: Brass end capped pre-war GE and Westy F15T8s (don't know exact date of make) Oldest mercury vapor: 1943 BTH Mazda 400w MA/V medium pressure lamp Oldest quartz clear mercury: 1950 Westinghouse 400w E-H1 BT-20 Oldest coated mercury: 1962ish Westinghouse 175w /C Oldest clear metal halide: 1981 Sylvania MS400/HOR Oldest coated metal halide: 1976 Sylvania MH400/C/BD clearender Oldest HPS: 1975 GE LU250/BD Oldest CFL: 1980s Yorkville 20w bullet shaped lamp Oldest CMH: 1997 Philips 39w PAR-30 made in Belgium Oldest street light: Early 50s Form 109 Oldest fluorescent fixture: 1939-1941 Hemco green RLM 2x 40w preheat industrial unit Oldest incandescent fixture: a simple bare paper lined brass socket on an asbestos insulated wire for hanging light applications. Circa 1920, came with 1920 100w GE lamp. Oldest mercury cobrahead: 1957 Westinghouse OV-14B Oldest HPS cobrahead: 1981 Westinghouse Tudor full cutoff
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	Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #2 on: August 01, 2007, 06:58:41 PM » Author: FGS
My oldest bulb in my collection is either the Sylvania f15t8 CW (Nov 1966) or the Westy f30t8 CW (Between Jan 1965 to Dec 1969)
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	Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #5 on: November 24, 2007, 10:58:24 AM » Author: TudorWhiz
Quote from: fran4001 on November 23, 2007, 09:41:58 PM Hmm, let's see: Mercury- A late 50's Radiant brand 175 I think HPS- some late 70s Sylvania 100 and 150w MH- an early 80s GE Multivapor 175 Streetlighting incandecent- lots of 40s/50s GE Mazda 103, 189, 202, 327 and up Domestic incandescent- I'm dumb here, but presumed early 1900s pointy-tipped misc. stuff Fluorescent- 50s Sylvania F40CW, 60s GE Mainlighters Probably more I'm forgetting! Nice collection you got here! Also welcome to Lighting-Gallery.net!   My name is Jace, I am an administrator of this website, if you need any help, questions, comments, just email me or PM me and let me know!   By the way the GE Mazdas would be from before 50s, they removed the "Mazda" trademark in 1946.  Email me if you would like me to date your HPS Sylvania lamps. I can date Sylvania HIDs and Westinghouse HIDs from the datecodes on the etchs, I can also date all Philips lamps and so most members in this page can, Dave (Silverliner) and Jerry (jercar954) can date most of the fluorescent lamps! To check email address, look in member's profiles also you can use personal message feature to privately talk to members including me. Well enjoy the site!
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	Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #7 on: July 20, 2008, 02:17:10 AM » Author: GE M-400A1
1973 Sylvania GTE Metalarc 1000W 1993 Sylvania 50W MH 1996 Sylvania Cool White Flo. Tube!
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	Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #10 on: January 01, 2009, 03:10:33 PM » Author: TudorWhiz
Form109: where's the dates?
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	Re: Oldest lamp in your collection? « Reply #14 on: February 04, 2010, 10:54:06 PM » Author: DieselNut
I have some good ones!  Not sure of the dates but the fixtures are from the 40s through the 70s!  I never knew the GE Mazda lamps were so old.  I have one in my old desk lamp.  I need to remove and put it away.  Got a lot of old Westinghouse F40T12 preheat lamps, Lots of "Mainlighter" GE F40s and the "Lifeline" Sylvania F40s.  Got some 6 foot "Powergroove" GE T17s and the 5 foot F90T17 preheat Westinghouse lamps (mogul bi pin)....ALL run with preheat ballasts.   I LOVE preheat fluorescents!
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