Some idea of value for odd Edison Miner's Lamp item

[HappyVagabonds]

Recently stumbled upon a Miner’s Lamp Battery Level Tester made by the Edison company. I did see that one was on worthpoint and looks to have sold on eBay back on 7/1/2014. Original eBay title was “THOMAS EDISON COAL MINERS LAMP BATTERY LEVEL TESTER”. Could someone with a worthpoint account please give me some idea of what this sold for as I can find absolutely nothing else about it. Thanks in advance and I hope everyone has a great July 4th.

[Amatino]

I’ve done several searches and it keeps coming back with zero results. Can you post the link?

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

Same for me. No results if the word test, tester, testor is used. But without the KW “Test*.*” in any part and drop out Thomas, I see edison battery packs with small lamps all mostly under $75. So if the lamp and complete battery packs is under $75, then I would assume just a tester for the batteries would be much less.

mike at MDCGFA

[HappyVagabonds]

Here’s a link to the worthpoint listing:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/thomas-edison-miners-lamp-battery-536993116

[MDC Galleries & Fine Art]

@HV: Strange that listing did not pop up in our Worthpoint. Also the home page of your listing looks different than ours. But when I paste your link into our WP it pops up. Did a new search and it popped up. We have had a subscription for years. Wonder why two different looking web home pages we see?

Any how: Here is the rest of the copy that is posted along with the item link.

Pricing & History
Sold for $29.95 Sold Date Jul 01, 2014
Worthpoint Category Transportation and Vehicles
Original Category Collectibles : Transportation : Railroadiana & Trains : Hardware : Lanterns & Lamps

This is an antique miner’s lamp battery tester designed by Thomas Edison many years ago. It probably belongs in a mining museum, but I have no contact with any. I don’t know what it is worth, but the age should determine that. If you can document the value I will accept anything close to that. Please feel free to ask any questions or offer any advise. Buy it now and get free shipping, my choice of service.

Hope this helps a little bit more.

mc @ MDCGFA in Atl

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by MDC Galleries & Fine Art.

[HappyVagabonds]

Thank you for the details and pricing info. It may not be worth much $$ but I got more then what I paid for it in the fun research and knowledge gained on the subject in general.

Thanks,
John

[Sharyn]

Not exactly on topic here:

I just happened to tour the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Ft. Myers, FL today, and I saw this and had to snap a photo:
https://imgur.com/a/bxqN6lI

We were also in the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Odgensburg, NJ about two weeks ago, and they have their own collection of Edison miner lamps. If you click on the link below and scroll down to the bottom of the page, the photo shows the lamps & batteries at the top of a large storage shelving unit (the cubby holes were used to store miner’s belongings while they were working).
https://www.sterlinghillminingmuseum.org/take-a-tour

[HappyVagabonds]

Very cool. Thanks Sharyn and hope you are having a great time down in Florida. I hope to check out Edison/Ford Winter Estates on my next trip down there.

The battery packs for these miner’s headlamps were rechargeable. The item I have is a box that would be hooked to a supposedly fully recharged battery pack to test if it was truly charged and good for another 8-12 hrs of use underground. I guess this would make sense if it took you a long time to get down into the mine to where you are going to work and then have your headlamp die in 2 hrs instead of the expected 8-12 hours. I’m going to guess that there were probably a very limited number of these testers made. Looking at the construction it is apparent that these were not mass produced and were probably made by hand one at a time. I will try to get some photos added to this post shortly.

Thanks,
John

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