Swiss Headlamp, Surplus

Need to play an olden times’ miner or OB-GYN specialist? From the country of clocksmiths and goldstashers, we have a proper vintage headlamp for ore prospecting and other spelunking on your claims. One-off lot – as these always are.

Features

This is a fine piece of vintage engineering! These also have a couple of features, i.e. you can put them on your head and turn them on. Also:

• Adjustable leather headband
• Sponge-like cushion for forehead
• Corded, greenish gray metal box for the battery
• Box has a clip to hang it from your hard hat etc.
• Place for a spare bulb inside the box
• Uses 4.5V flat battery

Not intrinsically safe

The electronics in this thing have not been insulated from the outside world. So if you walk into a methane cloud in your mine, you may blow up before you suffocate.

Swiss surplus

These lamps have not been used, but they might have some scuffs from decades-long storage. The lamps are from the country where one of its cantons refused women’s voting rights until the 1990s.