A9774/12

Oil lamp for railway signalling; tinned steel body, chimney, filter holder & fount; polished brass(?) reflector; ceramic & brass burner; thick glass lens, with red and blue filters, a third filter is missing; (the blue filter was used because the yellow light of the oil lamp would show through the blue filter, resulting in a green light being shown); markings show the lamp was used by Southern Railways; Norris collection.

early 20th century, circa 1910

oil lamp, railway signalling lamp

copper alloy, glass, tin alloy, ceramic