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60/138
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]
Patent Paquelin Automatic Lamp,
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
This is a ‘Patent Paquelin Automatic Lamp’, patented in May 1888, for burning off old paint and for soldering. It was used by Charles Baker, the donor’s grandfather, in the late-nineteenth century on the Marquis of Salisbury’s estate at Hatfield. The lamp burns benzene.
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1 painter's blow lamp: metal; fair conditionInscription continued...'Patent No.383538 May 1888'.
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Inscription: ‘Monopole Céde // Pour L’Angleterre // MM Crowden & Garrard de Londres.’ And ‘Eolipyle du Dr. Paque // Breveté en France SGDC // et à l’etraner // England No 6859 // Patent No 383538 May 1888’., MERL ‘Associated information’ form – ‘Used by Charles Baker (the owner’s grandfather) about 1870 (cleaning has revealed a stamp which sows that the lamp was patented in May 1888. MF [Margaret Fuller] 5.2.62). He was born in Amport and worked on the Marquis of Salisbury’s estate. // Napthalene or Benzene were burnt in the lamp.’
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France
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO]
1875-01-01 - 1899-12-31
[nb-NO]Production period[nb-NO]
Late-nineteenth century
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