Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums General Petroliana Discussion Gillco Brochure.. Gill globes and products??

Did someone on here get the brochure on ebay this AM ??

They had a different name for the ripples. also steel bodies.

And A cool milk glass swag light that it said was for service station. Fluted milkglass with a globe type mount each end, then a hobnail type glass conical end which is held on with a gill type band!! I actually have one of these..never knew it was a real Gillco!!.. also have another similar milk glass part.

should be under Gillco on ebay as a finished item.

Aso they reffered to lenses as discs anmd they made 3 types of air globes that were pictured!!

Ripples are colored Jewel and clear is a Crystal Jewel..officially!!

I think an Oldgasser got it!!

#350009828384

Hope they make and sell a few copies!!

Here is a stupid question...I remember seeing repop Gill ripple body globes in the parts catalogs a few years ago, so why arent they being made anymore??? Anyone have info about this??

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Robert Usrey

This is only here-say. I think when they made the repo ripples they did not sell very well. In fact, I know they did not. It took a couple years for them to catch on and the confusion about them being dated. Any knowledgable globe collector can easily tell the difference. I think it cost alot to make these originally also because of the breakage factor in making them. Seth had them for a while and finally sold out, maybe he can shed some light on them. Out there Seth???????

i heard the reproduced ones had a high reject ratio..that is that you had to make a lot more than you ended up with and scrapping a lot.

Also I seem to recall there was a lot of hand finishing.

Do they not just take specific size lenses of which most are not that plentiful?

Regarding the repro gill bodies I had heard the same problem with a high number of rejects in the manufactoring process. They were made for standard 13 5/16" gill lenses.
More common notched 13.5" lenses are too big.
I was the winner on the gill globe brochure and would be open to doing some copies. I'll make a post on oldgas about it in the future.