Sergio, that's what has me in a quandary. I feel like it could have aspects of both but the evidence seems to fall on it being 'new' but, at the same time, I've never entirely bought the idea that the 1980s ones were 100% original manufactured new but we'll never know, will we?
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Michael
Nos morituri te salutant - Supposed saying of the gladiators to the emperor ('We, who are about to die, salute you.')
'We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind' - From Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers
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