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Charles Birdsall
Apr 6, 2011 - 10:53PM
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Gift shop/presentation lamps sold as authentic Miners Lamps

130505341084 SELLER MIKEAIR2
This is not a working mining lamp. It has no serial number and no Colliery number. If you look at one, I very much doubt it will have a lock on it to prevent it being opened underground once it left the lamp room, which it must have by law to be sent underground. It has not been used at or down a pit. It will be constructed nearly identical to a proper miner's safety lamp by a reputable company such as the Lamp and Limelight Company. But as the coal industry contracted, they looked for other markets to keep themselves going and made lamps intended for the gift shop and presentation market - and this is one of them. badged as Hetton Coal Company to make it more attractive. These lamps were nearly identical to the proper miners lamps, but were constructed more cheaply than the real thing and had bits left off them, such as locks etc. In a pit museum shop it would be sold at anything up to £100, but no knowledgeable collector would give it houseroom!! on E-bay they normally fetch £15-35. A much better buy as a gift to a friend or relative, is an Eccles Protector GR6MQ, SL, OR SIMILAR, THESE ARE GENUINE PIT LAMPS, they sell between £30 and £75 on e-bay

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