Strange a 1964 lamp has a 'patent applied for' preheater when they were patented in 1931. A different control cock of course so there is more...
Could be I guess but the first mention I can find of the HL4 is January 1949.
A cream Kayen table lamp is mentioned in this July 1948 ad and is the only mention of it I have found. It would be easy to think this is...
@Muzzleflash, if I remember right the few 10/56 tanks have all been found in Australia. Where did you find yours ??
Patent number on your iron was 1938. Four years after the 1934 ad. [ATTACH] Date for trade mark was 1934. [ATTACH]
Perhaps the iron. Ad from April 1934. [ATTACH]
I would expect one of these would sell for $AU3000+ on any day.
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The mantle to fit would have been something like this. The chances of getting one are slim at best but making an adapter to fit other mantles...
The air control and the tap valve protruding through are odd to me. Being a downward pointing mantle is of interest but so is the Marla and a few...
Interesting lamp. There a few things about it that seem odd to me. Is that a stamp on the tank ???
Handle design changed September 1954 so your date seems right.
How big is big ?? [ATTACH]
Steel tanks seem to be thought of only as "war time". I have a 1935 "Letter to Agents" introducing the steel tank "primarily with the object of...
@Tony Press , we did talk about it but it was a long time ago.
Does this look like a Happy Mantle to you?? Patent date is just after the Tilley patent. [ATTACH]
A few surprises here. @Jean J [ATTACH]
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Mine came with a brass washer fitted behind the reflector and a silver plated washer in the front of the reflector.. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The first one is C L Chively.
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