From Memory Lighting Control Systems, History - ControlBooth :
From Memory Lighting Control Systems, History - ControlBooth :
I believe we've discussed elsewhere that Century had an axial ERS using the EGE/EGG/EGJ family of lamps, prior to or around 1969.
The fixture in question uses an FEL lamp. I don't think Capitol ever used the FEL lamp, the shutters look wrong for a Century. Perhaps Little Stage Lighting Co., Dallas, TX, model# E212. See Photometrics Handbook, Second Edition, page 233. Color Frame is specified as 6 1/2" sq. Beam angle: 11.2°, Field Angle 22.4°. MF=.395. PC=108,800 with FEL lamp.
I have no intention of wagering with an un-armed opponent....I wadger one fully working hand made oak box spot, that this is a Century of the above noted P-28s I think verses what you think it is.... (Fun and games of course between two old timers as it were to the industry...) Both and either fixture would of course be very rare to find. Up for the challenge?
The fact that both Murphy913 and Little Stage Lighting are from Texas furthers my case, I believe.... and I have FEL bulbs in them now if that helps at all
The only things I desire for my collection are a Kliegl 1355, 1357, and a Century Lekolite signed by Ed Kook and Jos. Levy.
Thanks, but I don't like incomplete fixtures. The Kliegls are common enough that I will run into someone throwing them away someday. Hate paying for fixtures and even more for shipping.
What type of lamp is it using or what socket does it have? Could be earlier if using a dual ended RSC lamp instead of G-9.5 lamp or P-28s lamp. Such details in say 1964 era verses etc. how to date the fixture. If P-28s, perhaps in the mid-range as a concept between the above dates in clearly a Halogen fixture but what type of lamp it's using will further date it.
(RSC - dual ended meaning R-7s, verses in local terms the G-9.5 meaning medium bi-pin, verses the P-28s meaning medium pre-focus in defining terms. Theoretically possible that once the P-28s went halogen, someone made an axial Leko out of it as a possibility - this amongst two sizes of the lamp type. Very possible I think that before the axial halogen G-9.5 came out, someone did the axial halogen P-28s Leko and this might possibly be that case in making a axial Leko older than the above Altman date.)
More photos inside the lamp cap and if lamp that type for dating and defining. (Have not checked the Photometrics Handbook either.)
Hhmmmm, me wonders if, based on the relatively rough shape, it was some custom made distillation of one of the designs ya'll 've been talking about? Part of the reason I'm thinking this is the shape matches the PAR lamped majiggers but is obviously less refined in construction, and the cap/tail definitely look like an Altman cap especially since the color matches that and not the body.
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