Chalwyn tropics - genuine?

Just got these from ebay. Can anyone offer opinion on authenticity and date?

 

Welcome aboard!

 

Hello lamptoad,

both lanterns were manufactured by the Czech company MEVA in the 1990s. The only thing original about these lanterns are the glasses.
Could you please take another picture of the tank bottom and post it here?

Greetings
Jörg

 

I suspected as much! Will share a pic later.

 

Well they are "technically" a Chalwyn, but as Jorg says made in Czeckoslovakia. Not such good quality but better than a lot of Chinese ones.

 

Here is the base

 

This is the burner assembly. It is held together by the flat pipe at the bottom. These are rusted up so I plan to replace them with homemade versions made of 0.5mm brass. If that doesn't work I'll have to bin the lamps.

 

Better to upload images direct to the forum like in your opening post.

 

This is the base

 

This is the burner assembly. It is held together by the flat pipe at the bottom. These are rusted up so I plan to replace them with homemade versions made of 0.5mm brass. If that doesn't work I'll have to bin the lamps.

 

Hi Lamptoad,

as I can see the Meva company produced them longer as I thought.
The marking on the bottom of your lamp means:
First quater in 2001

Kind regards

Jörg

 

Thanks Jörg

 

Had to replace the wick feeders (which were both rusted up) with home-made brass fittings, but they seem to work ok now.

 

I had a wick winder that had rusted up, but a good long soak in paraffin worked wonders.!
It was in there for a good few weeks, then I used the paraffin in one of my lanterns.
Hugs Sammi Jane xXx