Antique CARBIDE BICYCLE LIGHT Badger Brass Manufacturing SOLAR Red Green JEWELS for Sale

Antique CARBIDE BICYCLE LIGHT Badger Brass Manufacturing SOLAR Red Green JEWELS For Sale

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Antique CARBIDE BICYCLE LIGHT Badger Brass Manufacturing SOLAR Red Green JEWELS:
$249.00

Here's a BEAUTIFUL antique bicycle lantern/light from the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company circa the 1900s. In 1898, four businessmen, Charles N. Frost, George A. Yule, Richard Welles, and E. L. Williams, founded the Badger Brass Manufacturing Company where the manufactured acetylene bicycle lamps (marketed under the Solar trade name). These lamps were produced until 1917 when the company was bought out by the C. M. Hall Company of Detroit, Michigan. These caroffere lamps were also called acetylene gas lamps. Acetylene was created by the reaction of calcium caroffere and water. These lamps eventually went out of fashion in the when battery operated bicycle lights were introduced (probably around the late 20s/early 30s).
As you can see the lamp is beautiful. The red and greenish-blue jewels look blackish when there is no light bouncing off them or shining through them. I put pictures of the jewels with light and without light next to each other for comparison as you scroll through the pictures. I think there may be some sort of key missing from the lamp or at least the top of the key. Since I didn't plan to use it, and bought it because only it was so cool looking, I never investigated further, but I wanted to point this out.The last two pictures are not included in the sale. I just wanted to show examples of how they were mounted on the bikes.

The lamp is approximately 7" high x 3 1/2" wide.
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