This version was made between 1952-56 if I understand it correctly. It has a very appealing appearence to me. That creme coloured tank is very neat, and the straight, smooth stem is stylistically pure. The shade is of course an aftermarket one, bought from Moncrieff since I don't like the look of these lamps with just the naked onion-globe. PS. Not sure about the black background . It's an experiment since I don't really like to use the white sheet when shooting a lamp with an opal shade. But this black makes the column narrower than it is. I might stick to blue or green since this black darkened things down a bit to much.
Hi Christer, Very nice example you have there. 1949 is where I have these as starting but David S. has a advert with 1948 hand written on the back.
52-56 was my guess a few years back. Now I would say earlier than that. 48 seems early and I suspect that means it was introduced for the 1949 season and a late 1948 advert would make sense. So my best stab at dates for these is now 1949 to 1954. As far as I know they did not use the opal globe on this model but what Tilley ofered in their ccatalgues and what customers bought are not always the same. Dealers would have had opal shades in stock from the earlier models and no doubt some were sold with this second variation of TL106. Looks good like this. ::Neil::
Hi Neil, I think that its more likely that the ads been miss-dated as it says ideal present so the lamp would have had to be in full production Xmas 1948
Yes but this business of years of production is confusing. All the lamp companies worked in seasons not years. So 1949 actually begins around October 1948 and ends Sptember 1949. It therefore also follows that advertising for 1949 would be printed in 1948 and production would be running at full pace during October for the December sales bonanza. So don't get hung up on the calendar year. That is not how lamps were advertised and sold or to put it another way shift your thinking back a couple of months. ::Neil::
