RARE USLHS LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE FRESNEL LANTERN BLUE

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RARE USLHS LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE FRESNEL LANTERN BLUE

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Sold Date: 06/04/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fine Art

UNITED STATES LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE FRESNEL LIGHT

Brass lighthouse service lantern with a blue fresnel lens. (I am told that a blue light means safe anchorage - an appropriate lantern to have at home.) USLHS lanterns this big are very rare and when they do come up they usually have a red or green (port and starboard) fresnel lens, blue lanterns are very rare.

Lantern is 24 inches high and 9 inches in diameter. Fresnel lens is 7 inches high in very good condition. Lantern is designed for electric light and can be wired. Lantern weighs fifty-five pounds. The words Lovel New Jersey are cast on to the brass.

The lantern has been professionaly crated. The actual cost of crating is $60. The crate with lantern weighs 81 pounds and is 39x39x75 inches. Check UPS, Fedex and trucking companies for the best price for shipping and insurance. Oppps! The last measurement was in centimeters. The measurement in inches is 16x16x30 and the weight of the lantern and the crate is 81 pounds. T was a question about whether this was a green light that had been solarized. I researched this issue and solarized glass turns violet not blue. This lens is blue. Then one bidder sent me the following information from an author on lighthouse lights. Hopefully this answers the question: "Tom Tag responded to my request this morning, and indicated that he feels the buoy light is the real article. "Throughout the 1800's, experiments were undertaken with glass of virtually all colors as aids to navigation, and blue proved to be one of the least effective since it absorbs almost 90% of the light passing through it." Tom feels that "such a blue light would most likely have been used on a bridge or to mark a private aid to navigation." I imagine this rare piece of navigation history will end up selling for a considerable amount. As you may be aware, t are a number of private lighthouse illumination collectors who use automated sniping software on Ebay, and prices on such items usually go haywire in the final closing seconds." Thomas A. Tag is President of Great Lakes Lighthouse Research in Dayton, Ohio, USA, w he specializes in research on the technical aspects of lighthouses. He has written three lighthouse books and numerous technical articles on lighthouse illumination.