I spotted this on Ebay recently and decided to give it a home, sorry but I forgot to take before pictures, it was rather grubby and salt deposits all over it, i presume it had been used in a coastal location and put away for a lot of years without it being cleaned. It came without a glass, nrv pip and filler cap seals were rock hard and the cleaning needle was broken. Fount cage and hood are all chrome plated brass so no rust like a lot of Chinese lanterns, It all looks original except the pump knob which i will leave as found, I used a petromax 250 needle with the original jet then had to adjust the rod length to get the needle height correct I borrowed a glass from another lantern for now until i get a new one, the mantle i used was a solar 500 which i know shrinks quite a lot. Here are a few more pictures Here on my untidy workbench lit up. By the way does anybody have any idea of when these were produced. IAN.
It must be one of the better-made ones. With all the salt deposits as found, most lanterns, even the brass ones would have deteriorated to some extents.
Myn, it came up a lot better than I ever thought it would, it took a lot of work with autosol and fine wire wool and there is tell tale signs that dont really show on the photos also i forgot to mention there is also several stress cracks in the frame collar. IAN.
I think it is not uncommon to find the collars with a couple of stress cracks. However, I believe most founts, surprisingly, do not share that fate.
Worthy of your works ! Eveready became "Energizer" in 1980. So dates before that I would have thought.
The tank is stamped “Eveready/Trade Mark/A Union Carbide Product”. Union Carbide sold its Eveready battery manufacturing division in 1986: Eveready Battery Company - Wikipedia Cheers Tony
