Antique light bulb?

[Sevenhills1952]

Curious if anyone may know what this is.
I'm guessing a carbon filament, E26 (or 27) base. It works. I put it on a variac, didn't want to go over 100 vac. It was drawing 125 watts @ 100v, not much light output but lots of heat.
Only marking anywhere is on filament stem, hand written (e or l?)12 with 200 under that.

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[Paul_The_Builder]

125 watts at 100v! Wow!

 

[The Cobbler]

e12 may refer to the base "Edison Base 12" is it candelabra base?
cool bulb for sure

 

[Sevenhills1952]

e12 may refer to the base "Edison Base 12" is it candelabra base?
cool bulb for sure

No it fits in a standard E26/27 socket. It's just over 5" long and blown glass because of the tip I assume. The light output is less than a small modern incandescent night light, but tremendous heat! My guess would be maybe made around 1900?View attachment 1035505

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[Sevenhills1952]

I did some research and it could be either Nalco or Thermolight (a medical quack device). At 120 vac it could be 150-200 Watts. It may be 16 candlepower.
Regardless I don't think it's worth much.
(Not many light bulb collectors[emoji38]).

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[CoogarXR]

Regardless I don't think it's worth much.
(Not many light bulb collectors[emoji38])

I wouldn't say that... I found a Shelby Ray bulb (made in Shelby Ohio) a few years back at the ReStore for $0.25. It just looked like any old blown-glass 100-year-old bulb. I put it on ebay and got $150 for it.

 

[Bert_]

Pretty cool. I think carbon filament is right. Tungsten came in the teens.

Maybe not a worth a ton but worth hanging on to. I sort of collect old fixtures. I can appreciate something like this.

 

[nadogail]

One man's trash is another mans treasure.