Some Vintage lights arrived! - Smallest light EVER.

LED Flashlights – General Info
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A friend sent me some lights as gifts he found/bought at a museum sale auction recently. more to add to my growing Vintage Light collection. I will soon have to build a display case for these special lights.

- First up, is a vintage 6-D-cell monster, built entirely from copper, (some kind of coating/paint on the tube) this light arrived to me in working condition. It is huge, like a baseball bat with a 4.2 inch diameter lens and a six D-cell tube. it was built by some company named ” Dog Supply Co. Detroit 28 Michigan” as stamped on the tail cap, unknown year, but very old as the glass lens looks to be hand-formed.

Next, is a train-lamp style light, stamped ” Delta Poweray” , it to is a working light that will run on the large square 6-volt lantern batteries. for an incandescent with its 6” inch dia. lens It throws!

Below is an interesting dual-purpose light from a company named “Homart” , it is a 2-D cell light with glass lens, and arrived with a unused matching NIB bicycle handlebar mount still in the box with its mounting bolts sealed in a paper envelope.

And last in this lot i recieved is the coolest flashlight ever. This is either an ear-ring or a pendant flashlght, its supposed to be from the 1950’s 60’s era, and has a unknown gemstone for a lens.
The detail on this microscopic flashlight is absolutely amazing for something built half a century ago, even the switch has the ridges detailed in. The photo of this light below is taken with my tiny EDC pocket-dwelling Tank007 E09 for reference to show its size. ( note the inset image holding this with my finger & thumb…
If that’s a real vintage diamond on the head of it then its worth more money than i believe. :stuck_out_tongue: i wonder if i modded this with a trit behind the gem to make it glow…
EDIT: - the gem lens scratches glass… that gave me goosebumps… :open_mouth:

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Those are all pretty cool :)

Maybe a replica of the mini light, with trit-mod, is in order.

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Pretty cool collections there

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Very cool lights! I would expect a real diamond of that size mounted in a gold fitting, not copper. But who knows :-)

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Wow, those are amazing! Beautiful lights. I’m clearly missing a whole lot of good stuff by just focusing on contemporary lights. I need to branch out…

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The tiny pendant one with the gem stone as a lens appears to be made from silver, (though a bit tarnished) while the 6-D light in the first photo is copper.

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That tiny pendant light is amazing.

I wonder what kind of battery and bulb it uses.

Is it an actual flashlight with innards? Maybe it’s just a pendant in the shape of a flashlight and was never actually functional.

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Any inclusions in the stone to help identify it as a diamond? I’m curious about the pattern you would get from that optic… Any beamshots? :stuck_out_tongue:

More seriously though… I want to know about that diffused TIR in your E09!

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its sealed together and definitely a pendant of some sort made to look like a flashlight.

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its definitely a TIR optic in my E09. I basically cut that one of the four optics from a quad LED GU10 spotlight light bulb, and filed the sides to make it fit the E09 with a XP-G2 Neutral white emitter.

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Very nice vintage lights, now we gotta see how that train lamp throws 8)

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That small one is pretty cool. Now the women also get their flashlight jewelry!

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I discover the pendant flashlight is definitely made from Silver, now just to determine what the gemstone lens is.

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The tiny flashlight is amazing & hilarious!!

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On the gemstone, look carefully with 10X or more magnification, at the facets:
Are the edges clean where they meet or are there chips/roughness? Do all the facets meet at a perfect point (and are the points chipped)or are some slightly off? If it is a diamond, they will usually be cut more precise and the points and edges will not be worn or chipped.

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i will try to have a look at that later when i get home then.

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Beautiful!!
That train-lamp - :heart_eyes: