Astro Range: Favoured for its Charm: The Original Astro: Rose/Ruby, Yellow-Green/Amber, Blue/Topaz
Traditional Beauty: Astro Lantern. Two models mentioned: Port (Red) & Starboard (Green)
Simple Elegance: "Astro" "Mini": Rose/Ruby, Yellow-Green/Amber, Blue/Topaz. Please see images below for "Astro" "Mini" Lamp and packaging.
The Astro Mini is a very sleak design and unlike the Astro has a faster warmup time due to the fact that there is less wax and liquid that needs to be warmed up. The Astro Mini was packaged in the iconic packaging that showed on the left the descriptive text and on the right a diagram of the Astro Mini with red wax and clear fluid. The illustration is iconic, just like the product which relaunched in the 1990s as the Astrobaby product. Please see below for more packaging shots. Thank you for the images below.
Distinctively Scandinavian: Astro Nordic: Rose/Ruby, Yellow-Green/Amber, Blue/Topaz. The images below show a selection of Crestworth lamps. The Nordic design was extremely elegant, housing the light bulb and the fitting in a sleek cone which in turn is placed on a cone that elevates the lamp.
Working from left to right: In the images below, the left image shows a copper Astro Nordic Design, and the third lamp in the row with a green glitterlite bottle shows the silver Astro Nordic Enclosure. In the right image you can see a pair of beautiful Astro Nordics. Nordics use the same size bottle as Mathmos Jets and Crestworth Nordic Deluxe Lamps and Crestworth Telstar lamps. Please see the size comparision of the base of the Telstar in comparision to the base to the Astro Nordic. The Astro Nordic also featured in Copper which is not pictured below. Astro Nordics require a 40 watt bulb to operate lava. They are seen closed at the base, often with green felt and are extremely well produced. They feature a cap which is somtimes adhered onto the bottle. If your Astro Nordic is found cloudy, then do not fear, modern day Mathmos Jet bottles which can be found cheaply on ebay can simply fit into the the Astro Nordic.
The Sparkling Crestworth Living Jewel.
The ever popular sparkling: Living Jewel. (Using the Astro Nordic Deluxe Base) Colours: Red, Blue, Yellow, Green.
The bases of the bottles are often seen painted using heat resistant paint. Examples shown below with the Astro Nordic de-luxe Base. Living Jewel is a solvent glitter style lamp that has fast moving large square glitter pieces. When the lamp is turned off and is cold, the glitter flakes float to the top of the lamp and rest at the top. Please note that the lamp on the left in the left image below, is a pre-production prototype. It is also shorter in design, this was never released to the mainstream public.
Colours that were in production: Green, Blue, Red, Yellow. (As marked on the side of the packaging box).
The Nordic de-luxe style Lamps.
Nordic de-luxe lamps are commonly known as jet lamps this came out in the mid 70s and were produced in 3 different types:
1. Nordic de-luxe Glitterlite edition. 2. Nordic de-luxe bubble (lava type) 3. Nordic de-luxe living jewel (fast moving glitter/ solvent based). |