That explains the super tight appearance of that lamp, Robert! With afaik no activity in Korea, you just might have a lamp that will not be...
For any collector they come hardly nicer than this. Does the printing show any dating? Can you tell us how you found this very, very nice lamp? Mike
Any building supply chain should offer a removing agent of cement /mortar/concrete traces, or hazes, on glazed tiles etc. Usually (based on) HCL...
Not for the first time I am learning something here. Is the brown finish used on older rifles? Anyway, my apologies to Markus if I have come...
Hallo Markus, the gun or metal world is an odd one. 'Brünierung' in German makes for a visual black result when some chemical formula is surface...
Aha; thank you.
You do? Seems they are around in Australia, a country with plenty of remote areas, hence lamps? With this lamp found in a silver livery already,...
Both Wim and I have been mentioning a very good venue to succeed in purchasing an FL6. Not sure why you came the way of CPL to orientate, but of...
You did some good, skilled work there Gary! And looking very nice indeed! Although there might be some discussion as to the multi-slotted collar -...
Malcolm, The Bialadin on the left has an alloy fuel cap with the correct brass pressure relief. At least I have not ever seen an alloy screw in...
With positive reactions from 5 different countries and from both hemispheres, I thank you all. Where else but on CPL? I conclude the Veritas...
Curious about the 'buzz' lately on Veritas lamps, I decided to pick one up from Holland's national Classifieds. It must be a lamp from the Army,...
Colin, thanks for the reponse. I gave in to curiosity and bought a presumably ex-dutch army lamp coated in at least to layers of drab green....
Well, if David has been searching for one some time and did not succeed, this might be a rare item even if looking ordinary. There seems to be a...
Gary, the 1945 ventilator could be assembled with the steel tank originally. Steel tanks by then were perhaps not produced anymore, but they were...
Colin, was all this nice finish on both lamps hidden under the muck as per your before shot? If so, it serves the doubtful to think wonders once...
Many X246's of fifties vintage have shown up in the Netherlands with that conical black knob which has a push fit, and as a later replacement so...
George, no offence taken. You are right that buying 'long distance' can go both ways, and I am comfortable with that. After all, buying anything...
Despite my resolution not to expand my modest collection of Willis & Bates lamps, I am unable to curb my well trained curiosity of what 'might...
One can reason into eternity, but happenstance is based on no logic imo. Perhaps the most applicable - and understood - factor is 'luck'. You...
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