Nice find! I heard these have a pretty long life.

Yeah they're heavy though and not to bright lol. you can see the starter glowing through the vents when you first switch it on. This one looks newer than the NOS one from Joe Maurath.

Mine is the other "style" too...

I have some very similar FLB-17 ones which were made all the way up to the mid 2000s. I think these ones are better made though.

I have one of the FLB/17 ones too...

what do the FLB-17s look like?

Here's a shot of the bullet shaped ones. GE also made one with a globe shaped cover.

ahh there were some of those on the battle ship too in the same area but i think they were a tad smaller and electronic. I didn't loosen them and screw them back in to see them light up though. i'm guessing they converted that area to fluorescent back in the late 80s as it has always been mainly fluorescent. there were a few incandescent replacements though, which were obliterated in 2011 according to the dates written on the MaxLite CFLs. I did see a few incandescent miss-outs though. A couple were true miss-outs and the rest were 15W inside frost rough service lamps that seem to have been spot replacement lamps for some failed CFLs. 15W incandescents aren't bright but the inside frost ones sure put out a beautiful glow you just can't replace. They put out more light than I had thought too.

Ahh, too bad LEDs can't be fitted into globes or I guess the new Cree LED would look in them.

I'm sure they could but they'll probably continue to use CFLs unless LEDs become the same price or cheaper. I don't like LEDs but i hate CFLs enough to encourage the use of LEDs lol. NOT for street lights though. LEDs just seem too cheesey for street lighting IMO. With signals/indicators it's alright but with street lights the idea just doesn't sit with me. If they made the fxitures at least resemble what we have in use now then I'd be fine with them but i don't want to see these illuminated metal panels lighting up my streets. They look so ugly. the LED shoeboxes still look nice so i actually don't mind them.

LED isn't at all what it's claimed to be and it's all this false advertisement by manufacturers that feeds my grudge against these light-up hunks of silicone. Look at the lumens and wattages on this LED highmast. The 500W LED fixture gets compared to a 400W HPS fixture is FEWER!!!!!!! FEWER!!!!!! And for 100 MORE watts!!!! Where the hell is the logic behind that?! Of course the HPS won't appear drastically brighter becuase of the awful color but CMH is just as efficient as HPS and since there's better CRI, the light appears as bright as it should so CMH will outshine LED and it's more affordable too!

Yeah, the LED lamps from the most major manufacturers seem to the be pretty good though and more or less put out what the package says. The streetlights on the other hand don't put out nearly as much as the old HPS lumes they replaced.

I wish more places would consider using CMH, I think Toronto uses them in their gumballs and they look great at night. The 3000K gives that incandescent ambiance while the 4000K ones are a good match for old mercury lights.

Yeah, I love the glow of inside-forst incandescents too!
Those CREE LEDs would seem a little out of place in 1940s vaportight fixtures! I always laugh when I see old fixtures with spirals in them!
On boats I see spirals in vaportight lights all the time...it's pretty common...