This week we will discuss the first EAGLE branded light, the Ornamental Eaglelux.
Bearing a more oranmental design than the hard-edged GE solidbody Novalux, it had a body resembling a fluted roman column and decorative ends like a basket weaving. The doors were of the cast-visor with a door-mounted hinged reflector (also later used on the two earliest Eaglelux varieties). Produced from at least 1930-1932 it still appeared in some trade ads until 1937 [perhaps some artistic liscense and photo reuse] at which time it was replaced by the faceted sectional body rodded Eaglelux signal which would survive another two plus decades. This signal was also produced by Northern Electric of Canada in a distribution partnership with Eagle.
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Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
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Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by LarryC39 on Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:17 pm
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by LarryC39 on Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:20 pm
Obviously this was an adjustable model only, there is no distinguishing features yet known to identify an ornamental era 4-way from an early Eaglelux 4-way. Lenses were Kopp 27 with the darker dye lots, especially the beer-bottle amber lens.
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by JVC8230 on Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:49 pm
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by Easy on Sun Jan 09, 2011 2:17 pm
Here are some pix of my light The light was a " tough " restore, but it was worth it.
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by Crunge98 on Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:25 pm
Easy
Are those the original 27's? If so do you have apic of the font used on the lenses
these were also made under the harrington seaburg name
the eagle version also had bolt on cast visors that were a match to harrington seaburg visors
Are those the original 27's? If so do you have apic of the font used on the lenses
these were also made under the harrington seaburg name
the eagle version also had bolt on cast visors that were a match to harrington seaburg visors
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by Easy on Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:05 pm
Crunge98 wrote:Easy
Are those the original 27's? If so do you have apic of the font used on the lenses
these were also made under the harrington seaburg name
the eagle version also had bolt on cast visors that were a match to harrington seaburg visors
Jay, The amber is the only lens that is original to the light. I don't have any pix of the lens, and the light is in a box in the closet.
Do you have any pictures of yours?
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by LarryC39 on Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:24 pm
I'm wondering if those tunnel visors in Detroit were bolt-on or cast with the door?
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by 2070 on Sun Jan 09, 2011 6:43 pm
LarryC39 wrote:I'm wondering if those tunnel visors in Detroit were bolt-on or cast with the door?
If you look you can see the "Visor Tabs!"
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by Crunge98 on Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:53 am
LarryC39 wrote:I'm wondering if those tunnel visors in Detroit were bolt-on or cast with the door?
What Phil said
Easy I do have pics, dig yours out and look at the Amber lense. I want to match up the correct lenses. I'm going to keep bugging you until I see a pic
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Re: Eagle Ornamental Eaglelux Weekly Pick-A-Light 1/09/2011
by Jim on Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:13 am
I have found little info on thesse signals, cept fer this forum, I wish I could help add to the mix.
As living proof that even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then; I stumbled upon my ornamental trio in a sleepy little Mississippi delta town a few months ago. They were mounted to a broken 4way hardware. Im wonderin if their was a 4th head once upon a time?
IF my count is correct, we have only 6 of these in the club?
This pic does bear close favor to the Northern Electric version. Also, I believe these data plates are different from the other signals we have; they read "A Harrington Seaburg Product".
There's lotsa other pics, jest poke around ta see the rest.
Jim
As living proof that even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then; I stumbled upon my ornamental trio in a sleepy little Mississippi delta town a few months ago. They were mounted to a broken 4way hardware. Im wonderin if their was a 4th head once upon a time?
IF my count is correct, we have only 6 of these in the club?
This pic does bear close favor to the Northern Electric version. Also, I believe these data plates are different from the other signals we have; they read "A Harrington Seaburg Product".
There's lotsa other pics, jest poke around ta see the rest.
Jim
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