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Record prices: the most expensive miners’ lamps ever sold at auction

3 November 2026by Old FlamesFlame Safety Lamps

A six-bar Watson Davy, a Biram’s Patent “Economy” and the Thornton Eloin: the three biggest single-lamp hammer prices we can find.

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Record lamp: Thornton & Sons “Eloin’s Improved” safety lamp, early 1850s

2 November 2026by Old FlamesFlame Safety Lamps

A rare brass Eloin lamp by Thornton & Sons of Birmingham made £8,800 at Lay’s in Penzance. Here’s what it is and how to spot one.

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“A safety lamp only works if it’s used.”