Can't beat the warm glow of SON, especially now it has disappears from the streets!

Looks good. Much prefer globe lanterns that incorporate both a gallery, such as this one, as well as a blacked out top to the globe itself. Less light spill up into the sky and more light where you actually want it. Always surprised me that so many globe type lanterns didn't bother with either

I suppose it depends on where it is installed. Some places it might be desirable for the overspill of a fully clear canopy like in a city centre ect.

SON is awesome these sort of lights look shit in LED

I dunno, the Sloan 2.0 LED looks very nice indeed IMO. Clicky