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Thought I would share some pictures of my back lit Victor sign. The patent date on the label for the missing flasher rods is 1906. It still has an Edison bulb and a screw in plug. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays...
Jeff

WOW!! Very Cool. I wonder if switching to an LED bulb would help with the heat issue affecting the design on the glass.

That's a treasure!
I second the LED bulb.

James.

Very nice sign! I like way the Company grafted a conventional Victor data plate onto the side of that Berliner!

As for bulbs, my Edison lamps burn at a cool temperature. You can grasp most of them even after they've been on for awhile. I doubt if these areas of peeling paint are due to heat - any more than the glass in clocks which often do the same thing.

George P.

At one time, there were little flasher buttons that would be simply dropped down inside the lamp socket and the bulb screwed in on top of it. They worked great !! Or you could add another socket in series of the power cord outside of your sign, drop the flasher button inside and screw a fuse in on top of the flasher.

Skihawx wrote: Thu Dec 21, 2023 3:00 pm Thought I would share some pictures of my back lit Victor sign. The patent date on the label for the missing flasher rods is 1906. It still has an Edison bulb and a screw in plug. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays...
Jeff

That is sooooooo very cool! Thank you for sharing.

Is the image painted on the glass or is it a transfer? If it were painted, an art con$ervationi$t might be able to re$tore it.

+1 on the LED idea. If the bulb is an original Edison carbon fibre bulb, it is an artefact worth preserving in itself, especially if it is a functioning one. And, as said by others above, there is less heat from an LED. The current British Columbia Legislature, our provincial government building, opened in 1898. Sometime after this silhouette lighting was installed on its exterior. Edison carbon fibre bulbs were used originally. As of the 1980s, some of these bulbs had never been replaced because they had never failed; I do not know about now. The Edison bulbs were from an era before planned obsolescence.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays back at you and to everyone else, as well.

Love it!

Jerry B.

The images were done with a transfer. Then the black was then hand painted after. That is why only the black is peeling. But it hasn't dropped any black paint for a few decades. It is missing a couple of the jewels that were mounted on the inside of the glass behind the letters. I've though about restoring it but have become used to the way it is. The bulb does not get that warm and I don't lite it up that often. Would never put an LED bulb inside. Someday I'd like to build an original style flasher. There must be signs out there with a set of flasher rods. Bimetallic contacts would a challenge for me to reproduce.

That's an amazing sign! Thanks for sharing. I also use L.E.D. bulbs in my vintage stuff to preserve what's left of the sign. No heat is your friend.