No idea what these are...... very curious to know.

Hi all. I have joined to find out if any of you lovely lot can tell me what these are please?
They were found under the floorboards of a period town house in Darlington, England.

Thanks

 

they like fitting for a gas light - the part that holds the diffusing globe. but they could just as well be plumbing fittings!

 

Size? The gas light fitting seems likely.

 

I'm on board for gas lights too.
I'll bet they'd look special , all cleaned up.

 

Definitely a gas fitting.

Over the top of that, there would be a glass globe or bowl, and inside, there would be a disposable gas-mantle.

You pop on the gas-mantle, open the valve, light the gas, and the gas mantle burns and turns white and that produces a clear, bright flame, instead of it flickering around everywhere like a candle.

Would look like this:



The white, fuzzy thing inside the lamp is the gas-mantle. You used to buy them in boxes and they were folded up in little paper packets.

 

And even thirty years after the fixtures had been electrified, you could still find packets of the mantles in the back of a scullery cupboard.........

 

Hi,
Back in 1960s my local hardware store still stocked them.
greg

 

When I was a little girl, back in the age of the dinosaurs, the old man next door still had gas lights in his house. When electricity was installed in all the houses he refused. My job was to climb a pair of stepladders and light his gas lights on an evening. He had a wooden leg and so could not climb a ladder. He actually wore a peg leg like Long John Silver.

 

There's a gas fitting collectors society over here. I'll see if I can find the details.

 

Hi everyone, i apologise I havent responded yet I have been on my jollys
Thank you for all of your input.

Yes they were just lying under the floorboards, found when the plumbers where fitting the new heating system.

Thank you again!! - happy lady (the suspense was killing me