5th Order Large Lighthouse Fresnel Flashing lens from RAS AL HADD Lighthouse

Very rare and unusual 5th Order Large (400mm ID). Manufactured Ca 1920's by William Wylue Glass works, Germany. Useful Range approximately 12 Miles. This is a rotating lens with 6 flash Panels. Very Heavy Nickel Coated Brass Frame. Stands 35" tall x 27" diameter. Was in service in the Persian Gulf until the 1960's when De-commissioned. NOTE: We just received the following message from a keeper who worked at MENAS back in the day and remembers servicing this very lens - The lens (6 x panel 200mm focal optic) was part of a AGA PRDA-51 Dalen revolving incandescent mantle arrangement using two (one spare) DBRB-200 mixers and was purchased from AGA -UK in 1969 for Ras Al Hadd lighthouse located on the most eastern point of the Arabian peninsula where the Gulf of Oman meets the Arabian sea. Back in the day I use to visit the lighthouse twice a year to replace the gas cylinders and service the light. We replaced the gas light in the late 1980s with a solar powered light assembly.

$75,000

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