General Electric / Peerless #601 decorative light set
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Westinghouse
label: maker
content: General Electric Company
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: (GE) Peerless #601 - a set of 8 fluted C6-shape incandescent decorative lamps in a series cord-set. In original box. Characteristics: Lamps: Brass, miniature-screw base with glass insulator. Colors as follows: (“GE” lamps) 1 green, 1 red, 1 yellow; (“GE Mazda” lamps) 1 gray-white; (“Westinghouse” lamps) 1 gray-white; unknown make 1 blue. Cord-set: 8 bakelite sockets. Jacket has green cloth insulated wire with red and gold bands, bakelite connector. Price tag (Johnston's 5c to $1.00 stores) for $1.69. Printed on package: “GE” and “Peerless #601”. Price tag “Johnston's 5c to $1.00 stores” and “$1.69”. Molded on plug: "Paramount 10A-250V. 15A-152V." Printed on 5 lamps, “GE”; on 1 lamp “GE Mazda”; on 1 lamp “[Westinghouse logo]”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0058.18
label: accession number
content: 2014.0058
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0058.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: incandescent lamp
label: Object Name
content: decorative lamps
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/8 in x 6 in x 1 5/8 in; 25.7175 cm x 15.24 cm x 4.1275 cm