Original 1227

Replace the bulb, not the lamp — the Anglepoise Original 1227

The lamp record the Sound & light shelf promised at its opening: the Anglepoise Original 1227, in production since 1935, whose moving mechanism is three constant-tension springs the maker still sells as a £10 service kit — beside switch bars, linkage fittings, and rewire kits for lamps built 1938–1968. We correct the opening note's ledger with the maker's own list ($320 US — about $11–12 a year over thirty years, below the headphone record's $25), read the lifetime guarantee's 90-day registration clause closely, and keep the counter-case at full strength: any working lamp already reads just fine, and this record is about a mechanism earning decades, not about upgrading light.

• ·light
• ·desk lamp
• ·reading lamp
• ·Anglepoise

• Durable
• Honest
• Future
• Less