
Veritas lamp
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Veritas lamp
by Simon J Page (a2603172@infotrade.co.uk)
Posted: August 30, 1998 @ 12:13.
Sir - my father has an old Veritas parafin lamp in excellent
condition which he thinks is from the mid 19th century. He wants to
know more about it, eg how many were made, who for, possible value,
etc. Your website previously contained references to "Veritas" (which
was how I found it!) but these references seem to have gone now. The
references also suggested that Veritas was a trademark or model-name
possible manufactured by Stadelman (in Germany) or similar (which is
what I hoping to check the spelling of and search for next!). Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I have a JPG picture of it
which I could zip and send if it helped... Simon J Page
LONDON
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On August 30, 1998 @ 21:30, Fil Graff, Guild Secretary (fgraff@comcast.net) wrote:
Simon: Vertias House (Falk, Stadelmann) was a London lamp house for
many, many years! They sold lamps made largely by other firms (lots
of German products), generally rebranded with their brand. "Falks"
acquired Hinks, Messinger and most of the prominant UK lamp makers in
the 20's and 30's. They also were manufacturers in their own right.
They sold out to Valor Heating in the 50's, and all that remains now
I think is the former Mantle Division which is HQ'd as a separate
company in Malta.
I'm going to leave this posted, and hope that
John Claypole or one of the UK Guild Members can respond. I only have
1 Falks catalogue...there are copies as early as 1898 in collections
in the UK. By the way, I'd doubt "Mid-19th century"...1890s onward is
more likely for the use of "Veritas" as a brand. But one of your
countrymen can likely be more help.
John? Nigel? Mike? HELP!!! ::
Fil ::
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On September 02, 1998 @ 15:55, John in England (lightinter@aol.com) wrote:
Fil's reply to this enquiry is accurate - Veritas made mantles, lamp
parts, gas lamps - the 1880's onward is the likely make - they made
millions of lamps of all kinds, most of the circular wick lamps had
renewable parts, hence a high survival rate. The 1976 facsimile
reprint of the Veritas 1933 catalogue is available for £15 plus £1
postage from "Light International" magazine, 4 High Ridge, MATLOCK,
Derbyshire DE4-3HP. John Claypole -
Editor.
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On September 08, 1998 @ 13:17, Anton (wilant@gironet.nl) wrote:
Hallo Simon, I would like to react on your question about the Veritas
paraffin lamp of August 30th. It was me who react some weeks ago on
question Nr.4 (from Fred Smith) and gave some information about the
UK company Falk,Stadelmann & Co. I am a collector of
oillamps,paraffine-oillamps and carbide lamps and also of all the
information I can get about these lamps.Patents and Trade Marks are a
very good source of information and I do have a large amount of UK
patents,German patents and German Trade Marks in my collection. I
have in my lamp collection one Veritas lamp, bought in Wales(UK) some
years ago.On the bottom part of the burner of this lamp is to read
(in English): "Manufactured in Germany by the Veritas Lamp Works".
Jean Stadelmann from Nurnberg,Germany was the owner of several German
Trade Marks where under: Veritas (TM Nr.6317-AD1895);Wizard
(1895);Ariel (1895 and 1909);Calesco (1905);Lucisca (1907);Efesca
(1909) and Trilux (1909) all of these TM's are well known in the UK!
His business name was J.Stadelmann & Co with the following
address:Germany,Nurnberg,Untere Turnstrasse. In 1924 the name of his
business was changed into: Geppert & Stadelmann.They where the owners
of the German TM's: Veritas (well known);Candesco (1925) and Famos
(1925) and also these TM's are well known in the UK. He also produced
and exported mantles for gaslamps (1904) and non pressure paraffin
lamps under the name : VERITAS. In the German TM's are shown several
example's of boxes for mantle's (all made by the same "Veritas Lamp
Works" in Germany) but completely written in English. The first
information (I have) about Salomon Falk is a patent granted to him in
1883, and is on the subject: "A combination of a chimney and globe
for gaslamps".He lived in that time in Londen,Basinghall Street.In
1890 his address was: Farringdon Road 83-87. According to a patent of
1892 his business name was changed into: Falk,Stadelmann & Co. on the
next address: Farringdon Road 83-85 in Londen (and they are the
owners (in the UK) of the TM's mentioned above and makers of the
lamps with the same name). About the Veritas burner: To lower and
higher the flame of the lamp you have to turn a button.Inside the
burner this button is connected with 2 crown wheels and a vertical
thread shaft. By turning the button,the shaft will be turning too.A
nut and a clip are connected with the wick etc. This is made to a
patent, granted in Germany in 1886 (Nr.40045) to an other German
company from Berlin (named Schwintzer & Graff),and is of German
origine.(I think J.Stadelmann had bought that patent to use it in his
own lamp,but I am not sure about that). This all together give me the
very strong feeling that the German "Jean Stadelmann" from Nurnberg
is the very same "Stadelmann" as in "Falk,Stadelmann & Co." and with
this it shows the strong trade connection between Germany and the UK.
It also shows the great German influence in the developping of the
Veritas lamp which was (according "C.A.Meadows booklet "Dicovering
Oil Lamps" page 40 (Shire Publications Ltd)).."the most Popular of
the Victorian central draught Lamps". I hope this information is of
any help. regards Anton Kaim,Rotterdam,Holland,E-mail address:
wilant@gironet.nl