But they have no place here. I could stash them away, never to be lit again - they're much too bright to run. I hope the guy just offers them to someone else.

Too bright to run..? Don't be silly, they're wonderful..! If you think 135W is bright, what about our 280W SOI/H..?   

The 135W SOX lamp is actually somewhat brighter than a 280W SOI/H by well over 4000 lumens! 

Is it..? Oh, ok, but it's still an amazing lamp 

But they have no place here. I could stash them away, never to be lit again - they're much too bright to run. I hope the guy just offers them to someone else.

I don't have the money currently. But I'd be happy to take. A 135 watt sox off your hands in the future.

What I'm probably going to do personally, over time, is reduce my "collection", if we can still call it so, to a very small selection of the truly valuable items. That miniature collection has more chances of being effectively handed over to some history preservation organization if I instruct the executor to do so in my will.

But I literally have zero expectations. This whole endeavour was fueled solely because of the internet, so the chances are incredibly low I'll ever find somebody IRL willing to take my relatively large collection off my hands. Selling is about to become very complicated for legal reasons. I guess there could still be a away to literally just give them away to fellow collectors within Canada, at this point this is the only solution I could come up with to keep most of my lighting equipment from ending up to the recycling centre.

I also plan to use them, especially the lamps, and enjoy them as much as I can. I guess I could donate some to the local non-profit thrift store, at least until their sale is completely banned.

Yeah, this is one thing I've though about, and have concluded that it's best to just not think about it. I don't have kids and won't have kids and neither will my sister who I live with, so unless a kid of a cousin or something wants the house, likely the house and it's contents will go to some charity who will just discard all my souvenirs and scrapbooks and photos and try to sell anything they think has value. My Department 56 stuff it's really easy to look up the value of it, but say my yellow Dichro-Color flood or new in package Halarc lamp are going to look just like any other light bulb worth at most a dollar to most people. With traffic signals I also have some extremely rare stuff that doesn't look especially notable.

As a lot of you know I have probably the largest collection of low pressure sodium fixtures, that would appear as scrap metal to most people. It's still my intent to rehome them, but COVID got in the way, then I got involved in a legal dispute between relatives over an estate that resulted in me needing to spend extensive time in North Carolina. Finally a tree fell on and destroyed a large part of my deck, (missing the lights by a few feet), so I had to deal with making space in the garage for them and rebuilding the deck and all the dealing with contractors and insurance. I did sell a couple to Lighting Gallery members that approached me including one that survived being shipped. I have another sale pending so this works out I'll feel more comfortable shipping them and now that they're in the garage I'll be more inclined to deal with them. I was a lot more excited about rescuing them then reselling them and half the year they were buried under snow and the other half of the year it was nice so I was more inclined to do other stuff.

Sorry for the late reply but do you still have any of the LPS fixtures? If so, I’ll buy them.

What I'm probably going to do personally, over time, is reduce my "collection", if we can still call it so, to a very small selection of the truly valuable items. That miniature collection has more chances of being effectively handed over to some history preservation organization if I instruct the executor to do so in my will.

But I literally have zero expectations. This whole endeavour was fueled solely because of the internet, so the chances are incredibly low I'll ever find somebody IRL willing to take my relatively large collection off my hands. Selling is about to become very complicated for legal reasons. I guess there could still be a away to literally just give them away to fellow collectors within Canada, at this point this is the only solution I could come up with to keep most of my lighting equipment from ending up to the recycling centre.

I also plan to use them, especially the lamps, and enjoy them as much as I can. I guess I could donate some to the local non-profit thrift store, at least until their sale is completely banned.

I would have interest in purchasing some stuff when you want to sell some off and I have a friend on a different forum in Quebec that is a lighting collector mostly outdoor / street lighting

Yeah, this is one thing I've though about, and have concluded that it's best to just not think about it. I don't have kids and won't have kids and neither will my sister who I live with, so unless a kid of a cousin or something wants the house, likely the house and it's contents will go to some charity who will just discard all my souvenirs and scrapbooks and photos and try to sell anything they think has value. My Department 56 stuff it's really easy to look up the value of it, but say my yellow Dichro-Color flood or new in package Halarc lamp are going to look just like any other light bulb worth at most a dollar to most people. With traffic signals I also have some extremely rare stuff that doesn't look especially notable.

As a lot of you know I have probably the largest collection of low pressure sodium fixtures, that would appear as scrap metal to most people. It's still my intent to rehome them, but COVID got in the way, then I got involved in a legal dispute between relatives over an estate that resulted in me needing to spend extensive time in North Carolina. Finally a tree fell on and destroyed a large part of my deck, (missing the lights by a few feet), so I had to deal with making space in the garage for them and rebuilding the deck and all the dealing with contractors and insurance. I did sell a couple to Lighting Gallery members that approached me including one that survived being shipped. I have another sale pending so this works out I'll feel more comfortable shipping them and now that they're in the garage I'll be more inclined to deal with them. I was a lot more excited about rescuing them then reselling them and half the year they were buried under snow and the other half of the year it was nice so I was more inclined to do other stuff.

I forgot about those LPS fixtures. I'm still interested in a clean (or relatively clean) 55 watt version. I also wouldn't mind a ballast and a 180 watt (or 135w?) bulb or two but doubtful that would survive shipping.

Haven't seen the big ones in person yet.

I’m also interested in a 55W version or two, maybe a 135 or 180W one but nothing else as I can buy lamps from Alibaba.

You mean Aligarbage? Save your money, they're not worth it.

How do you figure? Did you have a bad experience with it or something? Just asking.

I have been thinking where my lanterns could go in the long term. Options include the London Transport Museum, since Transport for London now manages the city's primary routes (the ones with green direction signs), or the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. I don't think the motoring museums of the UK and the Low Countries will pass up on the Philips MA lanterns due to how pervasive they were.