Hard Hat and Carbide Lamp
Vintage Hard Hat and Lamp. Nice mancave display piece. This is an incredibly RARE hard hat. I do not know what it is made of possibly fibreglass or some sort of early ‘Duraglass’ like plastic, perhaps even a highly compressed composite ‘wood pulp’ material? I see that some very early hard hats are referred to as ‘Boiled Fibreglass’ but I think this could well be an urban myth based on a pre-1940’s patented process by the American E.D. Bullard where Steamed-Canvas and Glue result in a hard finis