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Antique Genuine Brass & Steel Miners Lamp Richard Johnson & Clapham Morris LTD For Sale
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Antique Genuine Brass & Steel Miners Lamp Richard Johnson & Clapham Morris LTD:
$349.57
Here we have a Richard Johnson Clapham & Morris Ltd miners lamp having a brass cylindrical body with original hook to the top. We understand this dates to circa 1920 but ask you view photographs and judge for yourself. When unscrewed the bottom of the base is stamped ‘TESTED BY RICHARD JOHNSON CLAPHAM & MORRIS LTD PATENTEES’. The base is also stamped \'646\' and \'10\'. Approx. maximum dimensions are : 3 1/8 inches / 8cm diameter across base, 4 inches / 10 cm wide across clasp x 10 inches / 25.5 cm high excluding hook The lamp is being sold as seen. There are minor knocks and marks commensurate with age and use. Please study photographs as what you see is what you will receive.
We found the following information in Graces Guide: Richard Johnson, Clapham and Morris of Dale Street, Manchester, then Lever Street, Manchester (head office and warehouse), Newton Heath, Manchester (works); and of Stanley Street, Liverpool, wire merchants.c.1814 Company founded. c.1872 William Clapham was taken into partnership and the business assumed the title of Richard Johnson, Clapham and Morris. 1878 Exhibited Wire netting, paper machine wires, miners\' safety lamps, &c., at the Paris Exhibition 1881 Death of the senior partner, Richard Johnson 1885 Opened a London sales office; their premises at this time were in Manchester and Liverpool 1886 Goad\'s insurance plan for 1886 shows R J,C&M\'s Lever Street warehouse on the south east side of Stevenson Square. Ground area 110 ft by 120 ft. 1891 Public company. 1912 Advert Showing Johnsons\' Works at Newton Heath, Manchester. 1914 General hardware, iron and metal merchants. Specialities: galvanized wire netting, wire work, wire drawers, brass foundry, high-tension bronzes, safety lamps for miners, woven wire of all kinds, wire, reinforcements for concrete and bricks, tinplates, sheet iron, galvanized corrugated iron, tinned sheets, sheet zinc, copper, spelter, tin lead, hardware and hollow ware. 1925 Arthur Lawrence Johnson and the company patented an improvement in miner\'s safety lamp, to provide locking of the oil container in the body of the lamp.
REF: miners lamp w10
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