It’s a Tilley X246 from 1954 to late 1956 (when Tilley stated to date stamp these). See below: The whole thread is here: First renovation....
...also called the 246 but has a square edged tank, often called the pork pie. The model after this, again called the 246 and dating from the...
...a Tilley KL80 that is painted with the same gold paint as the “pork pie” X246 lanterns. My question is: are gold-painted KL80s common in the...
...of course some lamps, a Kayen AP2 and some Tilley lamps as well a Pork Pie 3 version, EX4, TL136 and a PL53 in the shed. I love this fire pit...
...all clean no dirt, I will be leaving the EX100 as found and the pork pie TL106 as well, just a hand polish on the founts. The others are for parts.
Another Pork Pie lives on, for all those people who like original lamps this will not be restored. Yes you heard me right, this Pork Pie will...
1949-1954 is my assessment. Cheers Tony
The last variation of the Tilley X246 “Pork Pie” had the brown enamelled hood as seen on your lantern, @BigStevie (~1949). Cheers Tony
The short pork pie took a spooning on the vaporiser; but it’s running very well now.
Decided to give the Pork Pie a proper run last night. Think it might need a new vaporiser as I could smell some fumes of it and it was burning...
Those pork pie table lamps date from 1946 to about 1950 and the link below shows an example with it's original paint job. Tilley Table Lamp TL106...
I picked up this Tilley Pork Pie V1 and it was time to get it going. As Found [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The Cage There was...
Hello, I picked one of these up as my first lamp as I'm sure many here have. It had clearly not been used in some time and had quite a lot of...
@Buckaroo I also picked up a pork pie X246 in good nick last Christmas but for $55. However, mine is variation 3 and yours is variation 1 or 2 so...
Another Pirk Pie comes back to life, finally got time to re-seal this lamp i just needed to change the seals over. The lamp is in very good...
I was lucky enough to come across this table lamp, it has an aftermarket shade on it. But as i dont have any shades at all i'm very happy with...
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