Unlike my other BTH Rural Open, this lantern definitely is a BTH Rural Open - it has the BTH logo on the canopy of the lantern, barely visible under layers of paint.

It is missing its refractor and refractor hooks, but the rest of the lantern appears complete.

It's fitted with a 2-pin porcelean lampholder so would've originally taken a tungsten bulb.

It came from Bristol, and stood on a cast iron column (probably originally gas). This 1950s installation was removed in 1972, as the Bristol Corporation replaced their old 100W tunsten lamp swan-necked lanterns with Atlas Gamma-Six lanterns. (The Gamma-Sixes and their associated columns are now being removed in 2007).

The bracket is fitted with a superb old REVO cast iron box, complete with cover. It has a rather odd square spigot cap, but hopefully that will fit my spigots!

The bracket, control box, and original BTH Rural Open will be fully restored. It's probably the last remaining example of the 2000 Bristol swan-necks (as the Bristol Corporation put in an order for 2000 Atlas Gamma Sixes)... this is, apart from the other Bristol swan-neck in my collection.

Many thanks to Dave for offering it to me, and originally rescuing it from the council all those years ago.