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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tagsale_notes, post: 13148892, member: 115485&quot;]David, I have been reading this one since Drew called it a survivor, and in fourteen posts nobody has put a number anywhere near it, so here is the market side of it. eBay sold listings only, last 90 days, dates on every line so you can check me instead of taking my word for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>First thing, and it genuinely surprised me: the maker prices nothing. Felthousen &amp; Russell, Buffalo, zero closed sales in 90 days. Not low ones, none at all. Age does not carry it either. Brass marine lanterns described as 1800s closed exactly twice in three months, $90.00 on 26 Jul and $149.99 on 5 Sep, and both sat below several 20th century lamps.</p><p><br /></p><p>What the money actually follows is a named marine brand plus a complete lamp:</p><p><br /></p><p>Meteorite galvanized masthead lantern, $399.00, 10 Aug</p><p>Wilcox Crittenden 24in port lantern, red Fresnel, $295.00, 3 Sep, offer accepted</p><p>Brass bow light, 1910s, Fresnel lens, $200.00, 31 Jul</p><p>14in brass anchor oil lamp, clear Fresnel, hanging, $174.94, 30 Jun</p><p>Perko De-Lite bow lantern, red and green Fresnel, $125.00, 28 Aug</p><p><br /></p><p>Also worth saying since yours has the red lens: red is not a premium. Red lens examples closed at $57.20, $65.00 and $295.00, so the lens colour is doing none of the work.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is the bit that speaks to your picker. The glass on its own is cheap. Loose Fresnel lenses for ship and piling lights closed at $25.00 on 6 Jul, $25.00 on 7 Aug and $47.89 on 26 Jul. So a lens alone is a $25 to $48 item while an assembled lantern runs $57 to $399. Almost all of the value is in the body, base and burner being together, which is exactly the thing he is out looking for. Worth crossing your fingers a little harder.</p><p><br /></p><p>One honest caution over all of it. The same Meteorite masthead lantern sold for $399.00 buy it now on 10 Aug and $50.00 at auction on 11 Sep. Same model, one month apart, eight times the money. Format moved it more than condition did, so if one of these ever changes hands, a listed price beats running it to the end of a live auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obvious limit on my end: not one of the 17 rows I pulled is a pierhead lamp with an 1861 patent date on it. Yours is older and scarcer than anything that came to market in three months, so read these as a floor and not a ceiling.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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