Vintage Esso Flit Insecticide Sprayer Table Lamp, Desk Lamp, Industrial Display Lighting, Funky Lighting, buying Home Office Decor, Retail Display

This unusual yet gorgeous vintage red & white metal Esso Flit Insecticide Hand Pump Sprayer has been lovingly cleaned & repurposed into a cute and functional piece of display lighting.

This vintage Flit Sprayer is a highly collectable item in its own right.

High quality black Italian braided fabric flex, & black in-line switch has been added, turning this hand pumped sprayer from an unused and ‘forgotten' item into an unusual table/desk lamp. It has been carefully cleaned use natural products to retain the characteristics and patina gained over a lifetime of use.

High quality black Italian braided fabric flex approx. 2m
Black in-line switch
Silver E14 lamp holder
Energy efficient warm white filament style E14 tubular screw type LED bulb included
White 3amp 3 pin UK plug
All electrical fixings/parts are brand new and meet British Standards and has passed the Electrical Safety Test (PAT test)

FLIT is the brand buying name for an insecticide. The original product, invented by chemist Dr. Franklin C. Nelson and launched in 1923 and mainly intended for killing flies and mosquitoes, was mineral oil based and manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey before the company, now part of ExxonMobil, was renamed first Esso and later Exxon. A hand-operated atomizer called a Flit gun was commonly used to perform the spraying.

In 1928, Flit, then marketed by a newly formed subsidiary of Jersey Standard, Stanco Incorporated, became the subject of a very successful long running advertising campaign. Theodor Seuss Geisel created the artwork for this campaign, years before he started writing the children's books that made him famous as Dr. Seuss. The ads typically showed people threatened by whimsical, menacing insect-like creatures that would look familiar to fans of Dr. Seuss's later work and contained the tagline “Quick, Henry, the Flit!”.
Info: Wikipedia.com

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