Phosco P152 before restoration.

5 years ago, I had completed a very complicated restoration for someone, and this is what i had in return, hands down the most incomplete and battered lantern I've ever had in my life. Missing the gear cover, lamp support and original gear, its knackered bowl and broken hinge further adding to its problems, it just ended up being stored outdoors rotting away.

Upon hearing a NOS bowl had been found for it, I decided to undertake the extremely difficult restoration. It ended up being converted to a gearless lantern, a new lamp support was fabricated, the hinge repaired, and the photocell hole filled in, before a complete respray to freshen the whole lantern up.

The lantern shown here is as it was when I first acquired it, the first thing thats immediately obvious is the rusty water marks that are present, suggesting the reflector plate may have just simply rotted away, being as it was missing. I was so close to binning the lantern due to it being so incredibly battered and incomplete, little did I know 5 years later I'd actually get a NOS bowl for it.