Vintage navigation lights

I’ve found them last Friday in our local vintage shop. They were sitting well exposed on the front window. Strangely enough this shop is open only 3 days per week and today was the first day after Midsummer.

At this price it was a bargain so I wanted to be the first customer who visits the shop in the morning. I took a bicycle and rushed there to manage before opening. Of course it started to rain…

When I arrived, soaked, they were already open and there were people already in!
But lamps waited for me so I grabbed them and started inspections. They are in good shape although two kerosene containers look as if they might have a hair-crack. Maybe I’ll need to lightly braze them. Wick in two lamps is stalled but that can be fixed once I soak it in kerosene.

I bargain a little, left my other vintage railway lamp as an exchange and took all three of these at a price lower than half for one new lamp at Toplicht. They look to be made of brass rather than copper - brownish oxide on the surface. Hong Kong made, quality build.

I’ll try to fix them as my “parade” lamps or emergency lights - or maybe I’ll rebuild them for electrical power, to replace my ugly and worn plastic navigational lights. Not strictly legal but old boats have their rights.