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Night of the Hunter

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This is a group for those who have an interest in the so-called Hunter lava lamps named after their founder, Mr John Edward Hunter who attempted a patent on his Sata-Lite model in c. 1970. Later version was called the Sparkle-Lite using glittery strands in the liquid. They came in various designs but more or less one size and with only one bottle type but numerous colour combos in both wax and sparkly strands to glitter.

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Any experience with removing dents from copper hunter lamp? 3 Replies

I have just bought a copper hunter lamp (Crestworth?)It has some serious dents and I probably have to re-wire but i really liked the Floating Fibres in this one.I did not pay much for it and i Hope I…Continue

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Started by Gijzzz. Last reply by Modulo '70 Jul 10, 2018.

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Comment by Modulo '70 on July 21, 2018 at 9:32pm: Hi Eliot, welcome to Night of the Hunter. Hope you can help unravel the mystery a little. I too have heard of this patent. Perhaps it never was approved due to a certain existing manufacturer Crestworth? Who knows? What ever became of J. E. Hunter?

Comment by Modulo '70 on July 21, 2018 at 9:33pm: I must post pics of my rare Sparkle-Lite with box.

Comment by Eliot on July 22, 2018 at 12:58am: I shall keep looking and see what I can find.

You've done incredibly well with your boxed Hunters. Can't wait too see the Sparkle-Lite!

Comment by Jus on July 22, 2018 at 10:11pm: Thanks for the invite!

Comment by CatalinaThePirate on July 22, 2018 at 11:36pm: Hi, dunno if you already have this but I just did a short search and found this:

http://www.imovatedesign.co.uk/astro/hunterlamps.html

Hope this helps! :)

Comment by Modulo '70 on July 27, 2018 at 2:29am: That's cool Catalina. A very good site.

Comment by Eliot on July 27, 2018 at 2:56am: Indeed. The only thing I've uncovered so far as that the registered design number dates to June 1970.

Comment by Johnny on July 28, 2018 at 4:31pm: after hunting through my box files of lava stuff found 2 patents for John Edward Hunter lamps

patent no.1368241 is mainly the contents for the lava lamp

patent no.136842 is the construction of base etc

links to patent site below

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument...

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument...