Tudor style Washer and Recoup bottles

[l10tus]

Trying to obtain a couple of bottles, I recently purchased a new genuine item from Tudor direct, but was disappointed that it's quite a bit smaller than the original.

The new bottle is 3" dia. (75mm in degrees Centigrade) - whereas the original bracket is sized to accomodate a 3.5/8" or 93mm dia bottle.

The original bottles sold by the usual suspects were approx 2 pints capacity, but the puny little new ones are probably only half that?

Most of the usual stockists are out of stock of the replacement ( looks a little different to a genuine Tudor one) large bottles. Or seem to be charging rather high £50 prices each, for the similar replacements.

I spoke to Tudor and they only stock the small one now.

Any suggestions please?

Regs,
Phil.

[512BB]

An original recuperator bottle in good condition, correct size, correct screen printed label, correct lettering on the underside, recently sold on ebay for £125, a maiden bid. I have to say that I was a bit surprised that the seller, a good chap, received that bid, but I did not realise that the original bottle size was NLA. A bit miffed that I sold some a while ago.........for much less. Who knew.

Leslie