Best Flashlight Ever Made! A Vintage 1950s Ray-O-Vac Hunter Lamp (also called the French Flasher)

A SUPER COOL LOOKING LAMP. VINTAGE 1950S RAY-O-VAC FRENCH FLASHER LAMP. IN WORKING CONDITION! USES 8 D-CELL BATTERIES.  REGARDED BY MANY OF THE OLDER GENERATION AS SOME OF THE BEST FLASHLIGHTS EVER MADE.
 
SIZE 20CM LONG
REQUIRES 8 x D-CELL BATTERIES
 
CONDITION: HAS SOME SCRAPES AND USED WEAR. CRACK TO FRONT GLASS. TESTED AND WORKS 100%.
 
RAYOVAC (1906-present):
The French Battery and Carbon Company was founded in 1906 by James Bowen Ramsey in Madison, Wisconsin USA. The company produced batteries for portable radios, ignition batteries, and batteries for flashlights as well as producing flashlights under the trade name French Flasher. In the 1930s the company changed its name to Ray-O-Vac (eventually shortened to Rayovac) based on their best-selling dry cell batteries chiefly used for vacuum tube radios.
Rayovac was responsible for several innovations including the first wearable vacuum tube hearing aid and the first leak proof dry cell battery. During the Great Depression Rayovac expanded their products to include waxes, polishes, shaving cream, and a creme-freezer for making frozen desserts. During World War II Rayovac supplied the United States Military with batteries to power gear such as radios, walkie-talkies, and mine detectors.
Rayovac brought lawsuits against several battery companies for patent infringement regarding their patent for leak proof batteries. While Rayovac was successful against the patent infringement suits, they did not win the trademark lawsuits for the use of the term leak proof.
Rayovac acquired and merged with several other battery companies during its long history including the Electric Storage Battery Company (ESB Incorporated). At the turn of the 21st century Rayovac decided to diversify and acquired many non-battery companies including Remington, United Pet Group, United Industries, and hardware companies such as Pfister and Stanley. In 2004 corporate headquarters were relocated from Madison to Atlanta, Georgia; however by 2014 the headquarters were moved back to Wisconsin. In 2009 Spectrum Brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection emerging from bankruptcy later that same year.
 
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