I have always wanted one of these in my collection, adopted happy. Does anyone know is this the 3rd edition?
Hey @Buggerlugs That’s a very nice 3rd edition Pork Pie. She’s looks to be in pretty good nick too with all right the parts. Enjoy the fettle of this old and iconic Tilley. I’m look forward to the money shot. Cheers Pete
Patina, polish or paint, it's all down to personal preference, but I have found once you do polish you have to keep polishing to keep the shine but they do look very nice. Regards ian
If it were me I'd experiment with simply cleaning the existing paint and leaving it (on the tank/fount at least). I use alkaline detergent for stubborn cleaning jobs and it often gets surprising results. It goes by so many different names but it'll be sold as an industrial product. Try looking for traffic film cleaner remover, jet wash detergent.... a like that. You'll most likely have to buy it in a 2 litre+ container but you probably won't ever need replace it! I use it neat with a used, softened scouring bad and wash the surface afterwards. It's also best to use gloves when using it but boy does it work! I recently brought a 246 guardsman back to life and used alkaline detergent and I was happy to leave the original paint in place which preserved to original decal.
I had wanted one for a couple of years, always too expensive for my pocket and then I picked up a box with 3 Tilley's, two with Pork Pie bases, one orange top and another with the later brown top, and the third was a Guardsman... £45 the lot..Don't get me wrong, they were all very used but like you, I can turn my hand to tidying up a lamp. Bit of paint and a polish....lovely looking lamps, having seen your other lamps I'm sure it won't take you long to spruce this one up.....
If you look for my post '2x lockdown fettling projects' the Tilley guardsman fount was pretty dirty so I used alkaline detergent to clean it up. It might look a bit rough but the paint was pockmarked in quite a few places.
