Three more vintage flashlights arrived today from a friend who found these at an antique liquidation.
- Below, the one on the left is a Bond/Olin/Winchester light from circa 1960’s , the middle one is a unique angle light from circa 1950’s or earlier and built by Bond Electric Corp. , the one on the right is a special purpose light built by Ray-O-Vac and certified for hazardous locations and use in Mines by the US Department of The Interior/Bureau of Mines.
All three flashlights worked perfectly when i tested them with D-cells. The angle-light model has a glass aspheric for wide flood from its incandescent bulb, and turns on by “loosening” the top cap.
I will soon have to build a new glass display case for all my vintage lights, as this collection is growing :bigsmile:
I have a bunch of vintage lights as well, including a 1914 French Flasher and a few brass and copper lights.
I had posted to the antique light thread over at CPF, but much to my disappointment very few seemed to give a crap.
I wish we had more vintage light love here, some of them are so cheap as hosts, upgrading them with modern emitters. A true test of a flashlight modded I think. Probably as difficult (in a different way) than building one from scratch.
i was thinking of modding that Angle-Light above with an LED, driver and running it with two 18650’s in a sleeve, or two 32650 cells for an extremely long run time flooder.
