Mystery lamp could be a Clanny
Well placed in Tyne & Wear to receive a number of miners’ safety lamps from the old Durham and Northumberland coalfields, Boldon Auction Galleries (17.5% buyer’s premium) was presented with something of a mystery in the form of the lamp pictured here.
Marked Usworth Washington with the maker’s name T Crake, the 9in (23cm) brass four-bar lamp appear…