Vintage Lighting First wooden Gel Frame I have ever seen.

[ship]

Yet to take it apart, and might not. Should slide into the c. 1925 ?Kliegl Ovalittes found in the theater. TBA me doing anything to it and probably not. Amazing finger jointed frame and two parts of it coming together. It didn't warp either.

 

[JohnD]

Would that fixture be the Olivette?

These snips are from The Encyclopedia of Stage Lighting by Jody Briggs.

 

[ship]

Thought the date for a +100w nitrogen lamp was 1910. These two 500w Benjamin Lighting #3150's came out of a 1911 theater a few years ago. I had to re-construct & silver braize on the missing top vent/baffle & lamp socket assemblies based on a Brenkert similar design. Note the ruby red lens on its side. The Width on these fixtures is about 4" less than that of later 1916 versions of this fixture using 1Kw PS-52 lamps.

I know of an actual carbon arc Olivette at the Chicago Historical Society - it's the one that caused the 1903 Iriquois Fire.