Handlamps
BackMaximum price: £4,700
Average price: £251
Minimum price: £20
Definitely a huge and popular category with just about every railway company having their own style of hand lamp used by Guards, Signalmen, Footplate Crew and P.Way staff. Used to light the way and for signalling, they are segregated into aspects, single being one front glass and multiple aspect having rotating colour lenses to indicate clear, red, green or yellow. Interestingly, the actual glass colour looks different but when mixed with the yellow flame from the burner, the correct colour is shown. As is usual, smaller companies are highly collectable and odd styles are a bonus. Cartage Lamps and older Vehicle Lamps can also be in this category and although Loco Lamps are somewhat separate, any lamp carried by hand will be of interest to discerning handlamp collectors.
Great Northern Railway 3 Aspect large pattern double pie crust Handlamp brass plated GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY CHAUL END NO 1. Stamped in the reducing cone GNER /92 13705 and stamped in the side GNR 13705 Complete with all glasses, original fixed reservoir and burner. In good original condition. Chaul End was a temporary railway halt on the Great Northern Railway's branch line from Welwyn which served a munitions factory near Luton during the First World War.
Auction: July 2024 Sold for: £100Midland and Great Northern Railway 3 Aspect Handlamp stamped in the reducing cone, handle and body M&GNJR and copper plated on the side M&GNJR 2314 P.W.D. 2 SECTION BOURNE. Complete with original reservoir stamped M&GNJR, burner reflector and all glasses. In nicely restored condition.
Auction: July 2023 Sold for: £500Great Western Railway pregrouping Silber Light 3 aspect handlamp with GWR picked out in holes in the base. Brass plated G.W.R. For Petroleum Only on the top of body and reservoir and also brass plated THE SILBERLIGHT FAUDLES LONDON. Complete with all glasses and GWR etched on the front lens.
Auction: July 2023 Sold for: £180Great Western Railway 3 Aspect brass collar handlamp steel plated 146 and sign written on the side BR(W) SHREWSBURY F.11. Complete with all glasses and reservoir & burner reflector missing. In totally original condition and unusual to see a location painted on one of these lamps.
Auction: July 2021 Sold for: £80GWR pre grouping 3 Aspect Handlamp with matching body, drum and reservoir, all stamped GWR SWINDON 2 and brass plated 15689. Front lens catch also stamped GWR. Complete with GWR etched front lens and steel cowl, and all coloured glass. A rare pattern in nicely restored condition.
Auction: July 2020 Sold for: £180