Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Petromax Lamp

 
Clearing out our garage, I was moving some things that hadn't been unpacked since the mission in the 60's. On Sunday I found a Petromax storm lamp in its original box -- marked SCARBOROUGH BERU (a tiny atoll in the South Pacific). These old Petromax lamps are now advertised between R2,000 and R7,000. Realistically, this one would be worth R3,000 ($300). Its light output is equivalent to 400 Watts. When I pulled off the protective paper, I remembered the insides of it -- amazing what detail one can remember nearly fifty years later.

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