Metallum
And now I want to present to you a really unique flashlight from the Great War. Basically if we are talking about collecting wartime flashlights, everybody thinks about mostly the WW2 flashlights.That’s understandable, because it’s a better known period then the WW1. If I show to somebody a WW1 flashlight, they are often surprised, really? Flashlights in the WW1? With battery?! And the answer, yes, of course, this period was the golden age of flashlights! The most beautiful types were made in this period, and nowadays these are hardest to find. These are not only useful things in war, but also status symbols, signs of a more modern world. We can find a lot of pictures about proud posing soldiers with these early flashlights. This item produced by the Metallum light bulb company in the Austrian Hungarian monarchy, around 1915. The founder of the brand was Johann Kremenezky , one of the most prolific electrical engineer in Europe in this period. Not the flashlight producing was his main ...