The Brass Car Era featured cars and trucks built between 1890 and 1918

The Brass Car Era marks the start of automotive history, when steam engines had fancy brass fittings and brass lanterns were a natural addition to the new 'horseless carriage'. Brass cars were typically built with carriage wood and forged steel, and fitted with electric motors or steam engines. The Brass Car Era began with the sale of the first commercial vehicle in the 1890's and lasted until the early 1900's, when mass production and gasoline engines started the Antique Car Era.

Such very old vehicles present special challenges to today's collectors. Replacement parts must nearly always be handmade and basic documentation such as wiring diagrams and specification sheets are often nonexistent. The huge variety of companies and technologies represented during this formative period is also a complicating factor. It has been estimated that there were well over 1,000 manufacturers in the U.S. alone.
1904 Packard

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Antique lamps

The collection belongs to a school teacher Sabu, who says that it has taken a lot of effort to collect the lamps as most of the people are not in a habit of protecting antiques which has resulted in the losing out some important antique pieces.

"We have around 200 collection of lamps from different states of India. Nowadays, it's very difficult to collect the lamps because it's a part of our culture to throw and not use something old," said Sabu.

The visitors at the display were spellbound by the splendor of the antique lamps. They included school children who were thrilled to see and understand the way the people in bygone days dispelled darkness.

Haripriya, a school girl was spellbound by the number of lamps she could see under one roof.

"Here, I am able to see many varieties of ancient and modern lamps, which were even used more than 200 years ago. I had never seen such a huge number of lamps," said Haripriya.

People in ancient periods used various types of lamps including the ones made of banana leaves.

With the advancement of civilization, the lamp making techniques evolved that resulted in some awe inspiring designs.

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Antique typewriter

Remington Rand Typewriter Type 1 is a typewriter made ​​in 1930 until 1940, including favorite typewriter in his time, the condition is still very smooth, full parts and still function very well, there is still a box or bag storage is still very good condition, so that old typewriter with a condition like this is relatively very rare, on top of existing machines are writing the name of the town with the Old Spelling "Batavia-Soerabaja-Semarang", antique and interesting for their collection.

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Antique Camera

Mini-cameras and lighters brand SIPE dimensions: tg 40 mm width 15 mm 70 mm thick stenheil lens 12.5 mm f 2.5, film type cassette disc there are boxes and 2 film cassette Made in West Germany.

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