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<p>[QUOTE="Brazos, post: 579419, member: 7256"]Cluttered...I'm sorry for the delay in answering your questions. Somehow, I missed your post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to 1876 lamp collars were formed from brass tubes and had two horizontal fine lines around them. In 1875 Mr.Taplin invented a collar stamped from sheet metal but it was weak and didn't hold up,later, Mr. Brown patented an improvement, by adding two deeper groves to Taplin's collar. This added strength and thus we had the Taplin- Brown collar. This was cheaper to make and heralded the end of the fine line collars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not all companies changed overnight, as I'm sure that all existing stock of fine line collars was used up. As a guide, any lamp with a Taplin- Brown collar would have been made after 1876. Unless, of course, the collar had been changed. Gotta be careful about that, as nothing is foolproof.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Brazos, post: 579419, member: 7256"]Cluttered...I'm sorry for the delay in answering your questions. Somehow, I missed your post. Prior to 1876 lamp collars were formed from brass tubes and had two horizontal fine lines around them. In 1875 Mr.Taplin invented a collar stamped from sheet metal but it was weak and didn't hold up,later, Mr. Brown patented an improvement, by adding two deeper groves to Taplin's collar. This added strength and thus we had the Taplin- Brown collar. This was cheaper to make and heralded the end of the fine line collars. Not all companies changed overnight, as I'm sure that all existing stock of fine line collars was used up. As a guide, any lamp with a Taplin- Brown collar would have been made after 1876. Unless, of course, the collar had been changed. Gotta be careful about that, as nothing is foolproof.[/QUOTE]
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