Tilley AL7

I guess some of you were watching the Tilley AL7 that recently sold online. I hope the lamp ended up with a forum member!

Just in case it didn’t, I had asked the seller for some extra photos of the lamp while still in his possession. Here you go, enjoy...

 

How much did that go for? - I don't think I've ever seen one before...

 

1,700 notes...

 

I never paid that much for any lamp or lantern - but I might have been in the running at one point...

 

Thanks @BigStevie !

 

This link shows the now finished auction.

Tilley Lamp | eBay

 

Thanks Jeff - I wonder who it was told him it was an AL7 and that it was rare...

 

Good that you arranged the photos. Thanks @BigStevie
A nonpareil lantern.

 

Wow - and £9.50 postage. For that price I would want an armed escort....

 

Hum ... When did Tilley stop using the soldered-on little brass shield? ... Early 30's?

Looks like a steel tank galvanised or tinned ... i wonder if the baseplate was steel too ?

And is that a pressure relief button in the 5th to last pic ??

So many questions...

 

I have 1940 paper still showing the Tilley shield on donut lamps.
Whether or not they actually did have the shield then is anyones guess.

It does look like a pressure release rather than a pressure indicator.
Well spotted.

Question #1 Why are they so rare ?? Short run I know but geeezzzzz.

 

The control cock looks to be soldered in like the EX4s.... maybe.

 

Thanks @Anthony

Ah, so it's the same vapouriser as the LD1 ?

 

@podbros

It looks as though it does:

Tilley No. 951 Vapouriser (NOS)

Cheers

Tony

 

Thanks @Tony Press

I was looking at the shape of the tank and the swage line where the base plate fits ; the rolled out bottom edge is very like the LD1 (of @Anthony ) but the top of the AL7 is different?(more angular)

The only thing I can find that resembles it is an LD2 of @Mackburner ... but that has a similar base to the LD1?

I wish I knew how to copy and paste images from the gallery

..and it has the Tilley Hendon shield that is missing from the ads..

 

@podbros

What device are you using?

I click on the image, save it, then upload it into the dialogue box (with appropriate acknowledgement).

Tony

 

Hi Tony
Thanks but it’s my IT knowledge that’s lacking here I’m afraid... I’m unable to do the simplest of tasks..
I’m actually enrolling n an IT course at a regional college, poor sods.. they don’t know what they’re letting themselves in for :/

 

Those air buttons are not in the catalogue pics either.

 

@podbros - the left hand mouse button (the wrong button) here is your friend "save as"

 

They look very much like PL air buttons or the early donuts.. well spotted!

 

Probably find the burners been swapped for a 300cp one at a later date, hence the newer air buttons

 

Thanks @paul m

 

I got some more photos while it was available.

 

Almost thought that was photographed on the same table as the one in your avatar @ColinG I’d have added more pictures but it went for about £1300 more than I was willing to pay.

 

Even the chair is matching !?

 

Similar chairs and tables it's true but no mountain in the background like my garden!

 

Is there something you’re not letting on to Colin?.......