Swedish lamps
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Aktiebolaget Aladdin, Stockholm,
made the Ideal, one of a series of Aladdin-Invert lamps,
which appears in a 1911
catalog in Christer Carlsson's collection.
The 250 cp light is fueled
with kerosene from a tank (right image)
that connects to the downward
projecting brass connector (middle image).
The key on top of the tank
goes into the regulator below the key
and allows the air
to pressurize the fuel in a separate part of the tank.
The tip cleaning mechanism
is missing (middle image).
The Primus brand was manufactured
by Aktiebolaget B.A. Hjorth, Sweden.
Their Model 394/6 is an
alcohol fueled variation on Model 994 (below)
made during WWII to conserve
gasoline.
This lamp has the 2/3rds
frosted globe =/6 model designation,
is date stamped AE=1940,
and is in Christer Carlsson's
collection
This Model 992 Primus harp
lamp dates from 1955.
Another 300 cp model but
with a different burner from the 1025 above.
Complete with an original
globe which has a fitting lip on the bottom
that is held in place with
a three-point screw fixing.
Also the top is cut lower
down on the globe to reduce the heating effect from the burner.
This lamp is in Neil McRae's
collection.
Model 993, as this one
dated AA=1936 in Magnus Thilander's collection,
was only a lamp model and
did not have a bail/handle.
It could be fitted with
a enameled reflector or opal glass shade.
This 200cp model burns
kerosene
and is preheated with alcohol.
Model 994, as this one
dated AR=1952 in Magnus Thilander's collection,
is another kerosene fueled
200cp model
that is preheated with
alcohol.
This lamp came with a choice
of three globes,
opal glass as seen here,
fluted opal glass, and two-thirds frosted glass.
Primus Model 995, running
in this image, is a table lamp model.
It is date stamped Z for
1935
on the bottom of the fount.
This lamp, in Neil McRae's
collection,
is complete with a shade
ring
but lacks the parchment
shade.

Three views of a Primus
Model 1014 table lamp.
This lamp is a 300 cp kerosene
model.
The lamp left and center,
is dated 1937 which is rather late for this model.
It is shown in the center
with the opal globe, =1014/4.
This lamp is in Neil McRae's
collection.
The same model mounted
in a harp frame with opal globe = 1014/B;
This lamp, dated 1931,
is in Nils Stephenson's collection.

Primus table lamp Model
1015 is similar to 1014 above
with the addition of a
wood handle and a smaller fount.
The lamp is dated stamped
U, =1930, and includes the original Primus shade.
With this shade and nickel
plated fount the model is 1015/2.
This 300 cp kerosene lamp
is in Christer Carlsson's collection
and weighs about 4 1/2
pounds.
This Primus Model 1022
was Bo Ryman's first lamp.
His family used it for
light in a rental cabin that had no electricity
As a teenager Bo retrieved
the lantern from a shed, cleaned it up and used it again.
Later he found a replacement
globe as the original had been broken.
Primus Model 1023, as Model
993 above,
was designed to be a lamp.
This lamp, in Magnus Thilander's
collection,
is date stamped Z = 1935
and has a lyre hanger base attached.
The lamp could be outfitted
with an "iron plate" reflector
or opal shade and could
be hung with a lyre hanger or wall bracket.
Primus Model 1024/6, in
Christer Carlsson's collection,
is designated /6 for the
two-thirds frosted globe,
which was available on
a number of Primus lamp models.
This lamp is date coded
Y=1934,
possibly the year this
model was introduced.

These are two examples
of the Primus 1025 table lamp
The one on the left appears
to have been designed to be used outdoors.
The lamp on the right has
a reproduction shade made by Bo Ryman
and is a close match to
the original.
This model is a 300 cp
kerosene lamp from the mid '30s (left) and 1946 (right).
It was made in Sweden by
Aktiebolaget B. A. Hjorth Stockholm.
The lamp on the left is
in the collection of Roger Price; image by Neil McRae,
while the lamp on the right
is in Neil McRae's collection.

Aktiebolaget Lux, Stockholm,
Sweden, made this kerosene gravity lamp street lamp that is nearly 1.5
m tall!
Fuel from the fount at
the top of the lamp travels down the small tube seen on the left in the
left image.
The fuel enters a vapouriser
within the globe
(seen on the right inside
the globe in the left image) and travels back to the top
where the heated fuel passes
through a jet and back down the lamp cylinder (mixing chamber) to the burner.
This lamp, in Christer
Carlsson's collection, dates to 1909-20 and produces 700 or more cp.

Aktiebolaget Lux also made
this Victoria model
which is a kerosene gravity
lamp for indoors.
Christer Carlsson, whose
collection this is in,
runs the lamp (right) with
an upright Aladdin mantle.
The Victoria dates to the
same time period as the Autolux above.
This lamp is missing an
outer, tulip-shaped glass shade.

This table lamp model by
Aktiebolaget Lux, in Birger Varemo's collection,
dates to the same time
period as the above lamps.
This lamp is nickel plated;
it also came in a brass version with an integrated pump.
The upright mantle was
hung on the wire suspended over the burner.
The globe is a replacement
that is similar to the original.
Aktiebolaget Optimus, Upplands Väsby, Sweden
made this Model 209 kerosene
burner,
this 200 cp table lamp
is complete with optional shade.
This lamp is in Neil McRae's
collection.
When Bo Ryman bought this
Optimus lamp
it had a different globe
and was a Model 250.
Bo was able to convince
a workmate, who had this globe,
to trade it to Bo, thus
making it a Model 250A.
This is another example
of a lamp option
on a stove base.
Optimus Model 253, in Magnus
Thilander's collection,
is a 200cp kerosene model
that likely dates to the
1930's.
This pendant lamp has an
added heat deflector.
This Optimus Model 268
hanging lamp
is also in Bo Ryman's collection.

This Optimus table lamp from the 1940's is either Model 309 or 310,
depending on the shade which is missing (Nils Stephenson).
This 300 cp kerosene model, in Ian Caunter's collection,
was photographed by Neil McRae.

A number of Swedish lamp
models were lanterns with shades added.
An example is this Optimus
Model 930, which was in Magnus Thilander's collection.
The shade is original and
the small can is for preheating alcohol
for the kerosene fueled
lantern/lamp.
This version is 350 cp,
not 300cp and is so marked.
This is a Radius Model
106A outfitted as a lamp.
Bo Ryman bought this lamp
from an employee of the Radius factory
after the employee had
stored it for 20 years in his basement.
This 1960's vintage lamp
is in brand new condition.
The original fringe is
made of glass beads threaded on ribbon
and held up by a thin wire
pressed under the edge of the reflector.

Small alcohol pendant lamps,
like these Radius Model 107s, were made during WWII
when petroleum-based fuels
were in short supply in Sweden; the fount holds about a half pint.
The lamp has a vented filler
cap so cannot develop pressure except by gravity
to fuel the generator under
sufficient pressure to operate.
The lamp on the left is
in Neil McRae's collection.
Bo Ryman refinished his
lamp on the right to the original.
Bo Ryman bought this Radius
114 lamp
in never-used condition.


Radius Models 143 (left),
145 (center), and 146 (right) lamps
were sold by the company
as options to put on the stoves
which are Models 21 (left
& right) and 17 (center).
The lamp on the left is
in Neil McRae's collection
while the ones in the center
and on the right are in Bo Ryman's collection.
These models were probably
made in the 1930's.