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Not in my collection Rating: 115v, 25w Came from: U.S.A. Manufactured: 1909-1922 (est. 1915) Sold on: January 2003 sold for: $78 plus sh. Estimated value: $50+ Bulb rarity: Extremely rare Best feature: Its rarity!! |
| Tipped Amber Edison Mazda Lightbulb |
This is an Amber colored, cage filament, Edison Mazda lightbulb. This is the tipped variant. This bulb is extremely hard to find. So far I have seen only 3 bulbs like this one listed on eBay, one of which I won recently. The one pictured sold for an eye-opening $78! The little glass tip on top tells us that this bulb was made before 1922. Bulbs like these were commonly used for theater stage illumination. I believe the light given off by these Amber bulbs was considered to be too similar to the transparent types, so not many people purchased bulbs like this one. They costed quite a bit too. The filament that this bulb uses is called a "cage filament", and is made of tungsten. It is supported by a glass rod which has several hooks on it. The usual amount of hooks is 10, but there can be many more, especially in the case of 220 volt bulbs. People often find this type of filament hard to describe. It is simply a very long continuous filament, not multiple filaments as most people usually say by mistake.
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