On 17 Nov, 08:26, Ian White wrote:
Someone in the USA would like to identify this old British made
soldering iron:http://www.dwave.net/~twomules/sterling_iron.jpg

That "row of truncated diamonds" logo looks like Antex. This would be
an old valve era one (so before my time), because when transistors
came out they switched to their much more familiar low leakage current
design with the (brittle) ceramic shafts and the lower powered element
inside a hollow bit (CCN, X25 et al).