Miners carbide lamp
Catalog #
1965.FIC.094
Date:
Accession #
Miners carbide lamp, States Springfield, Illinois, USA on the bottom. Metal has turned green with age, so is probably made of copper.
Probably made by the Shanklin Manufacturing Company of Springfield, Illinois, first manufactured in 1913. The lamp is named after its inventor, Frank Guy, a miner from Springfield. Frank Guy partnered with George and Edgar Shanklin to produce this lamp, and the lamp saw tremendous success through World War I. The Shanklin Mfg. Co. was sold to the Universal Lamp Company in 1932, who continued to make “Guy’s Dropper.”