This is my Picostar, a long wanted lamp for my wishlist. Í find the Picostar mysterious. It is a solid build quality lamp and with personality that makes the lamp unique-ish, and that indicates the Company must have had a fair production-line/plant for making this nicey beast. It is also strange that a lamp made up into the 1970's? leaves no clues to Work with. If Day-Lite made Picostar, then I dont understand why they didnt just call it DayLite and I dont understand why the DayLite lamp obvious is rarer than the Picostar. DayLite is just a possible "Picostar-maker" because of the look - nothing else as I understand it. Neil suggest it might be Continetal Licht there is producing these lamps. To me that is logical, while "a lot" of Picostars Wears a "CL"-mark on the controlwheel, which seems to be the only hint Picostar gives awaý, whatever CL stands for. The Lohmann, the fine lamp belonging to Martin/Luminator here on the site is also very very Picostar-like, but not more than DayLite and I actually think it is misplaced, if it isnt marked Picostar in any way, why it should be under "Other Brands" - sorry Martin, no offence ment. It could be funny to find the real maker of these lamps, talk to people from the productionline, see a today-photo of the plants Buildings. I like stuff like that - but thats just me This Little nice one I found is the 3 redhood and none of them are alike. Doron Papo's lamp has a different manometer than Niels's and mine. Niels's has a red pumpknob and mine dont. Nerdy details, but differences, which indicates a longer production period, where parts ran out of date so to say. My Little lamp is undfired in the nozzle for the mantle, but someone couldnt resist trying to fire of the booster/preheater and doing that the thin axel-screw holding the lever-arm broke and left the lamp useless, why it ended up here in very fine shape - thanks Odin Well here she is: The bottom is actually quite soft and resilient and the solder-control looks a bit sloppy Claus C
Hi all, the Picostar (and also Daylight, Petro-Pintsch, Petro-Delux and maybe Lohmann etc.) were products of the Meyer & Niss company, Hamburg-Bergedorf, Germany. Some of our fellow-collectors have found an evidence for this statement, see followig topic in a german forum: forum.hytta.de According to another thread in that same forum the Meyer & Niss company manufactured lanterns marked with "CL" as well as with "SL". But it is still unclear what "CL" could stand for. However, surely not for "Continentale Licht"! BR, Martin
That is very very nice information Martin, and a good forum you linked to too btw. This is absolutely new information here on CPL, thanks for reacting Can you explain the meaning of "echtes Turmerzeugnis" "a true Towerproduct"? Bitte Claus C
Hi Claus, this rather means "a true/real Turm brand product". The name "Turm" is a well-known german brand name associated with the Meyer & Niss company. BR, Martin
Im still smiling Matthew. I cant believe my luck. I was searching for a Crystal Decanter under used-for-sale and wrote the searchword Crystal, then a decanter came along with others and between the photos there was this lamp he also sold to me. He even brought it to my home - what a guy The crystal decanter is to be filled with "Sloegin" btw. made after Shedmans recipe. RIP. Your lamp is in very fine state Martin. I salute ýou from the polish pressurelamp site with thanks for your information Claus C
Do you know if there's supposed to be a tiny check ball / ball bearing in the fuel cap , under the pressure bleeder screw ?
