You Might Call This Vintage…
This was advertised as a conductor’s lantern. No, not a musical conductor–a train conductor.
I’m not sure if that’s true, but it looks pretty darn cool.
And, once I clean it up, it will look completely awesome. The inside has room for a huge battery, but I bet I can bring that down to size. The battery connections are all rusty, so I’m not sure whether they’ll be usable again or not. If not, a 9-volt battery and some LED lights would make for a nice upgrade.
Maybe I’ll go for a retro steampunk kind of look with it…
It does look like what could be a conductor’s signal lantern. In my mind I can see a man hanging off the side of a train car in the late evening dusk, holding on with one hand and swinging the lantern to signal the engineer…, for whatever.
That’s the way it looked to me too. And, that’s why I bought it. I was looking for something train-related.
But, after getting it, I don’t know. I started having second thoughts. I mean, I’m keeping it. I just started to doubt whether it really was a conductor’s lantern.
I’ve seen similar ones, but so far nothing that’s an exact match. Maybe once I get the rust off, I can see a name or identifying mark I can search for.
Michelle’s gonna kill you. Well, I dunno. This thing looks pretty ugly so far so you might be safe from her wrath.
Wait until I clean off the rust.
I don’t know I am partial to steampunk… maybe I will kill you and eat you by the light of my new retro steam punk, conductor lamp.
I hope she’s talking to you, Dan.
LOL