Hi all,Just got back from spending a few days on holiday in Berlin. I stayed at a cheap-but-nice place which used to be a telephone factory (take a look at if you're thinking of going to Berlin - you guys would probably like the place). Anyway I digress a little, but the place was fitted out using many Cold War era lamps, desks and fixtures which I thought looked really cool.Then one night I went for a walk and noticed a huge complex of derelict buildings, probably 50 acres or so. It turned out to be an old East German railway rolling stock maintenance depot. When the wall came down they had two depots within a couple of miles of each other, so they closed one, removed all the gear and abandoned it. Nowadays it has been pretty comprehensively trashed and, apart from the odd sign warning of "unfallgefahr", you can wander around the place pretty freely. Some squatters have even set up an nightclub on the site. Given my love of old junk and also a fascination for derelict buildings, I couldn't resist a look. Sadly I didn't have a camera with me, but brought back a couple of things from among the piles of waste on the site: there are a pair of Bourdon pressure gauges (apparently these look pretty weird under an x-ray scanner!) and one of those Cold War era lamps I was talking about. Unfortunately the lamp glass is broken, but I thought I'd pick it up anyway and try to find a replacement. It looks like the glass has been sprayed red on the inside, probably so that it could be used as some kind of signalling lamp. Has anyone seen a lamp like this before? It's marked with a logo made from the letters "EOW" and also carries the letters "Ex" and "Sch", both inside circles. The whole thing is very heavy and the cage isn't made from wire, it's round bar! I also need a weird triangular spanner to open the case. That blast cabinet I was talking to Harold about would be useful too! Here are a few more pictures: got any thoughts about where to find a new glass dome, or how to...

I have seen them in the USSR. They used to use these in constructionsites for some purposes, I forgot which. Like marking cranes etc.i

Anyone seen a lamp like this before?

Jul 18, 2005 24 Replies

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lionslair at consolidated dot 21 years ago

I don't have a bulb in it, It was broken when it was brought up. (The ship went through an Atomic blast.) And it was in somewhat deep (for us) water.

But it looks the same - just the insulation is a bit flaky - someday soon I plan on mounting it and another lamp I have plus three portholes.

Mart> Is the base size a standard medium thread base or is it larger, as in a > mogul base?

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lionslair at consolidated dot 21 years ago

Thanks bill - but this was war time and anything goes. Often tape. The U.S. Coast Guard developed a lot of the rules, with some coming from sailing ships.

Martin

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Christopher Tidy 21 years ago

Thanks for all the information about the lamp. Martin, if I find a source for replacement glass globes would you like me to let you know about it?

Best wishes,

Chris

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lionslair at consolidated dot 20 years ago

Both of my globes - one small fist size with a cage over it and a larger beauty in bronze and frosted globe are both in good shape glass and bronze wise. The insides are the stumbling point - do I leave a 50 year old war relic as is or make it usable on the to be port holed yard barn. Time will tell.

Martin

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lionslair at consolidated dot 20 years ago

I should have said - not Japanese - but German. At one time it was said to be but proved otherwise. - Little things like names and stamps on metal.

Martin

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