And the insanity continues with an increasing rate... Yesterday a went for the amazing sum of 20600 Kronor! That's around $2100 or £1520. It's not far from what a low income worker here get monthly after all taxes have been deducted... Imagine all the electricity, food, diapers, water, petrol etc. all that would mean for a family... And still it didn't even had the rarer semi frosted globe, but just a chipped and glued opal one! And today a common, simple Primus lantern went for 1481 Kronor (£110 or $170) despite the fact that it missed the collar below the globe rest and was in an overall not too fantastic condition. Man, if I was in need of cash, I would sell out all duplicates right now. It would easily pay me a new garage or a really nice car. Frankly I am considering it... This bubble will burst soon enough, and I bet I will regret later that I didn't cash in when it was possible. But hey. It's just like trading in stocks. We amateurs always wake up too late.
On the flip side, there are some god buys to be had out there too. This Gloria heater that sold not very long ago proves it. Like seriously, $AU50 or £23. Bargain. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-Gloria-Light-Co-Brass-Copper-Heater-/191672595453?hash=item2ca093b3fd
Yes its some sort of price bubble for sure. Am following this brass 930 on tradera that took of like a rocket. It seems its mostly 119ns and brass modells that stands for the highest prices. 1020s and other primus/optimus NP lamps seems to be almost no value to. The fun thing is that the barns and abbandoned farms in sweden is litterd with these lamps. They are everywere. I got ahold of three 119s from the same place earlier. Wounder when the owners will wake? Edit: And another thing is that the insane prices in brass modells will eventually result in a wide use of stripping of NP to earn some serius cash. //Fjellot
I would probably end up with one... And well, that's no harm in that. Seriously though. If any, it will be the regular Hemi. It's almost half the price compared to the equivalent SRT8 It's only five Primus lamps instead of ten.
Someone keeps trying to sell a single standard Tilley lamp mantle on UK ebay for £17:00 buy it now - To be fair I think it had free postage
Recently I have been able to buy some nice rare lamps quite cheaply that I would normally expect to get outbid on so maybe prices are on the wane, or maybe I just had a good run of luck. On the other hand, some lamps that are pretty common seem to be going for big bucks, like the Tilley KL80, and someone managed to sell a used Optimus 1200 for £225
