On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:30:47 +0000, Vir Campestris wrote:

Don't want to worry you after all that work... but are you sure gas
mantles are that yellow?

I wasn't going to say anything. B-)

ISTR them as surprisingly white - more so than a standard incandescent
lamp.

Agreed, a nice white light with sometimes a hint of green. That
yellow looks more like a wick based oil lamp light source than a gas
(or paraffin) based mantle one.

But it's many years since I saw one.

About a year, the last power cut...

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Cheers
Dave.