Premier extra carbide
bottoms. The one on the right blew up in my cave
pack during a trip underground. Note to self:
Spent carbide apparently may not all be spent...
A chunk of
coal that was formed into a miner's helmet with a
carbide lamp. A gift from a fellow caver back
around 1993.
A chunk of
coal made into the image of the classic AutoLite Carbide
Caplamp with the wide spade mount.
This is a
statue titled "The Coal Miner" and from the date on the
back was made in 1965. It is made of coal & shows an old
coal miner with a carbide lamp on his MSA cap, a chaw of
tobacco in his mouth and his lunch bucket by his feet. A
great find back on a dusty old shelf at an old antiques
barn. I believe a copy of this statue is shown in
Poh's Flamelight
book.
