revo c14407/s: as aquired
The provenance of this lantern and bracket is completely unknown, having been obtained as a swap
at a collectors meet.
However, it may have originally been installed in Folkestone, as the angular AC Ford bracket and
side-entry REVO C14403 series lantern were very popular around the town. But its colour would
count against this: Folkestone painted their brackets and columns white whilst this was green.
Side-entry versions of this lantern are extremely rare.
Unlike a surviving catalogue scan where the side
entry spigot is a simple bolted aperture, this lantern has an elegant, scalloped spigot which suggests
it was an earlier design.
I've got a dome refractor but I'm currently searching for a plastic 'Prefect-style' bowl which were used in
Folkestone.
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