Lantern

Learn a new thing every day, always wondering what is the purposes of the round patches, metal plates and hole on the Bakelite Zubehör box. The German design are up to the tiny details, now found out it is prefect matching the hooks, nut and straps of the metal wall mount. Here is my restored…
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Knew nothing of the wall mount, not until received mails from a collector showing his rare collections of the lantern stuff, but no close-up details. Weeks later a rusty plate aroused on eBay which I saw it before and paid no attention then, it’s the most wanted wall mount. Sofort-Kaufenfor for 45e. It came three…
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The German designed such an interesting T panel to be insert to the back of the Bakelite lantern housing with it in candle mode. It was the design from the brass Reichswehrlaterne, an exact copy in Bakelite. Always welcome more information of this combination or its manual. But only found a manual of the metal…
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Typical German design as everything are tight fits and pack together. There is a specify slot for the T panel in the Lantern Box 37. It is located at the first slot of the color glass frames. Very happy that my replica T panel fits in very well. Also glued a broken red and green…
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On the content list there is an item: T blende mit schieber, zum vorrat T panel with slider, to stock Which is extremely difficult to find, only two group of pics had been found. So why not build one by a donor relic Bakelite lantern. As all it needs is a flat Bakelite piece, two…
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Everything started from this beautiful empty Bakelite box I obtained on winter of 2020, not until further study found I was so lucky to have every metal clamps intact and no crack on Bakelite walls. Again, the German design made perfect but complicated product, this box is a typical case to well protect the fragile…
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This is a restored box, came empty and deformed, happened to found an incomplete set of replica partition kit from Germany, the most difficult situation was lack of details, eventually all wood works are done, all missing parts been built but the wood I can obtained is not as hard as the Germany made wooden…
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