If you have any questions, please do contact our knowledgable and friendly staff who will be happy to help. Happily, your refurbished Any Old Lights vintage light should last a lifetime.
With plastic fittings and LED bulbs now in common use, all metallic vintage lighting is becoming harder and more expensive to source. Brass and bronze, nearer 40-70 years old. That is the beauty, we feel, of buying vintage: the back-story.Īs a rough guide, aluminium vintage lights are anything from 20-50 years old.
Given the age and original usage, there may be minor wear and tear - it will not look brand-new.
#Double sided clock professional#
This we remove and the metal is polished to a professional finish. Most vintage lights were covered in layers of paint for protection. That's why so many people who come into our shop in Fowey exclaim, "It looks like an art gallery in here!" We only stock the best. We cherry-pick only the most eye-catching on your behalf. There is a finite number of vintage nautical designs in circulation. We work with trusted suppliers to ship carefully selected lighting to our warehouse in Fowey, Cornwall, where it is fully refurbished and tested by our engineer, Clive (see Our Work tab). Much of our vintage lighting is reclaimed from shipbreaker yards in South Asia, where vast cargo vessels and liners are decommissioned. If the title says 'vintage' that item is guaranteed vintage (definition: more than 20 years old, though the vast majority of our vintage stock is circa 50 years old). Four holes in the backplate allow attachment to your wall with screws. Batteries are included.Įach weighs 2.6 Kg, 20 cm diameter, 13 cm wide, protruding 25 cm from the wall backplate 20 x 12 cm. Originally powered by on-board electrical generators which are incompatible with domestic systems, both defunct mechanisms have been replaced by quartz battery-powered versions taking one AA battery each. These are statement timepieces with genuine seafaring backstories, in very good condition though there will be some wear and tear given their original use. This vintage Citizen version has been stripped of its paint and the steel polished. Round double-sided versions of our always popular vintage ships’ clocks, which would have been used on board cargo ships, dating generally from the late 1980s. If you have always coveted one, now may be the time Where we would previously have bought in dozens, we are now finding less than a dozen of any particular design. All vintage double-sided clocks – round and triangular – are becoming increasingly hard to source.
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