Coleman
US lamps after mid-1920's
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This CQ lamp, dated
May, 1926, in Dick Sellers' collection,
has a 318 shade that Coleman
originally had made for torch lighting Models M and N.
This shade is brown as
are other shades designated 318 by Coleman.
David Jahn thinks this
shade was sold on the later Quick-Lites,
as seen here, to use up
old stock.

This Coleman CQ lamp is
dated July '26.
On the left it is fitted
with the #307 green cased shade
which has white glass underneath
and on the right with the
#324 shade finished in green.
This lamp and shades are
in Dean DeGroff's collection.
This Model BQ Bracket Lamp
is shown with the #307 white ribbed shade.
This lamp is in Dwayne
Hanson's collection.
It was made in the late
teens to early 30's.
This lamp is not marked.

Coleman made the Model
117 lamp in the late 1920's
This lamp has the slant
burner with Q77 generator
and takes a separate pump.
It has the #443 Kremelite
shade (left) and #444 Peacock shade (right).
This lamp is in Dean DeGroff's
collection.
Coleman Wichita made
Model 118 in the late 1920's.
The lamp,
in Ed Dennis's collection,
had lost much of its original gold Colac finish
so Ed experimented with
reproducing
this special finish with fine results.


Models F-102 (left), F-104
(center), and F-105 (right) table lamps
were made by Coleman for
their Sunshine Products Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Note the carburetor valve
in the F-104 & F-105; these lamps are instant lighting.
The F-102 & F-104,
in Neil McRae's collection, feature the same shade,
while the "corrugated"
shade on the F-105 is the only difference besides the finish (bronze vs.
brass)
between these latter two
models; both of these lamps are stamped CQ and May, 1932.
These two shades were the
only ones offered by Sunshine Products as was true of the earlier Sunshine
Safety Lamp Co.

Coleman Model 130P came with a parchment shade, hence the P suffix.
Erwin Schäfer made this 347 shade based on the original Coleman design.
The lamp has the original mica globe.
This gasoline model has a Silvertone finish,
is match lighting, and requires a separate pump.
Only the year number, 1934, can be read on this lamp.
While it lacks an original
shade,
this Coleman Model 131
lamp has a reproduction mica chimney
made by Fred Kuntz, who
owns this lamp.
This lamp is dated July,
1934.

Models 134G (left) and 134A (right) are match
lighting models;
they require a separate
pump and were economy models.
Model 134G came with the Pyrex globe, and had a Silvertone finish;
This lamp is dated June 1935.
Model 134A, in Bob Meyer's collection, came with the original mica globe
and parchment shade as seen here, and with an Ivory finish.
This lamp is dated Aug.
'39.

Coleman made this Model 133 in June, 1935.
Model 133 is another instant lighting gasoline model made in Wichita.
The two pint fount is finished in two tone Indian Bronze paint,
seen here with the 355 globe but not the parchment shade.
The lamp requires a separate pump.
This lamp is in Frederik Tivemark's collection.
Model 129 is similar in
features to 134 models above
except that it is a kerosene
model.
This lamp, in Jim Lawrence's
collection, was also made in the mid-1930's
and took No 355 globe and
a parchment shade.
The finish on this lamp
is Indian Bronze.




The Model 150 gasoline lamp came in a glossy-black (150B), spring-green (150G),
cream-ivory (150I), or wine-red (150R) base.
The 150 series were match generating, according to a 1937 Coleman Wichita catalog.
When equipped with a T44K generator, they were kerosene fueled,
torch generating, and had the suffix K in the model number.
These 300 cp lamps, which require a separate pump, are in Jerry Engbring's collection.
They originally came with mica globes and parchment shades.


The Model 151 instant lighting gasoline lamp came in a glossy-black (151B) or spring-green (151G) base.
These three mantle, 450 cp lamps also appear in the 1937s Coleman Wichita catalog.
Note the tip cleaner wheel (left) on this model that also featured a built-in pump
and came with a parchment shade over the Pyrex glass globe.
The lamp on the left is in Jerry Engbring's collection
and the lamp on the right is in Dean DeGroff's collection.
This is the Model 143 table
lamp with a parchment shade.
This lamp is in Dwayne
Hanson's collection.
The lamp has an inner Pyrex
globe
that allowed for the use
of a Coleman "Sheer-Lite" shade.
This shade is the Poinsettia
pattern.
It was manufactured in October, 1938.
Coleman's Model 138 is
a two-burner,
kerosene-fueled lamp that
was made in the later 1930's.
This one, with an undated
fount, is in Verne Sullivan's collection.
It lacks the parchment
shade but has the finial and inner Pyrex globe.
Models 138, 138A, and 138B
are named in Coleman catalogs
but the details of their
differences are not known.
Coleman wall lamp Model
859
operated on dry or liquid
butane fuel.
As on other models of the
period,
the 355 glass globe protected
an outer parchment shade.
This model dates to circa
1939
and is in Jim and Jan Nichols'
collection.

Instant-Lite Model 132A
was manufactured from 1935-49.
The coppertone version
(left) is date stamped Aug. 1937.
It has the 355 globe but
lacks the parchment shade.
The ivory with gold accent
version (right), in John Carriere's collection,
is date stamped Nov. 1940.
The parchment shade is
a replacement;
it is protected within
by the 355 Coleman globe.
Model 139 table lamp came
with a parchment shade (not shown)
which was protected by
the 355 Pyrex globe as seen here.
The lamp could be run on
kerosene or gasoline
with a T44K or T44G generator
respectively.
This lamp, in Herman Mulder's
collection, is date stamped July, 1946.

Coleman's Model 152 & 152A (below) were
the last lamp models made in Wichita.
These lamps are both dated
Jan. 1947, early in the production of this model.
The lamp on the left, in
Bill Tanner's collection, came with a 355 globe and parchment shade.
This model ran on white
gas or kerosene and is running here on kerosene.
The lamp on the right,
in Dorothy Nietfeldt's collection, is seen with the original parchment
shade.
$11.95 is the price in
marking pencil on the box for this lamp.

Model 152A was a gasoline only model
so there is no instructional decal on the fount.
This lamp, in Bob Meyer's collection, is date stamped A 48.
The plastic pleated shade is shown
in Coleman catalogs and may have come with the lamp.