logo image Coleman US stoves until early 1930's

This early version of the Model 1 Coleman camp stove

has an offset pump and air inlet valve screw in the left end of the tank (lower image).

This stove, in Mike Murphy's collection, also has top and front oven panels

that separate from the rest of the stove

and store in the lid when it is disassembled.


This is another early Model 1 Coleman camp stove as the one above,

seen here completely restored by Joe Pagan. It
could be purchased

with a folding oven, baking grate for the upper half of the oven (lower image),

and a heat diffuser - a flat metal sheet that covered the burners when the oven was being used.

The lower half of the oven was accessed by tipping the entire oven back on its hinged lid.
Model No. 1 was made in 1923-24, most of which came with the oven, according to Matt Moore.


Coleman's Model 2 stove also included a folding oven,

seen here in a tipped-back position.

This model dates to the 1920's;

This stove and oven is in Randall Adams' collection.


This early Coleman Handy Gas Plant

in Dick Sellers' collection can be dated to 1925 or earlier

based on the name Coleman Lamp Co. painted on the fount.

This unrestored stove has the grate brackets bent downwards.



Coleman's No. 4 urn burner is shown above mounted on a fount with fittings from another manufacturer,

possibly W-M-P MFG. CO. Lohrville, Iowa, which is printed on the pressure gauge.

The fount measures 11" high x 10" in diameter.

The urn burner has a replacement valve stem and is missing parts of the tip cleaner below the stem.

This stove is in Bob Fladung's collection.


This Coleman Model 140 three burner Bungalow Cooker

is an early stove model made from 1923 through August, 1927.

Joe Pagan restored this stove in his collection.

Not all the grates came with the stove.

The 5" center burner is identical to that of a Handy Gas Plant,

as is the generator & fuel control.

 


Air-O-Gas Model 326 is a pre-1928 model.

Note the two different grates on this model -

on "open type" on the left and "no burn type" on the right.

Joe Pagan restored this stove to working condition.

Joe notes that the left grate is nearly identical

to the center grate on the Bungalow Cooker above.


This is a Model 2D stove manufactured by Coleman in 1928-29;

all original including the box.

The Coleman name is stenciled on the tank in gold.

The tank rests in two positions, one to heat the generator

and the second to operate (seen here).

This stove is in Fred Kuntz's collection.


Coleman made Model 9C in 1927-28.

Ron Lenfield was given this stove as a young boy.

He has repainted the main compartment and still uses it.

This stove featured a change in the burner openings

as seen in the lower image.


Joe Pagan restored this Model 9D stove, successor to Model 9C above.

The stove runs very well with a blue flame from each burner (not shown).

Joe gave the stove back to his boyhood friend, Tim French;

the stove had belonged to Tim's father.



Paperwork with Coleman's Model 10 stove, also called the Gypsy, dates it to Sept. 1927.

The lower image shows the tank and burner assembly.

The push-pull regulator rod on the left

controls the flow of fuel to the second (left) burner,

while the generating shift lever (another push-pull rod) near the middle

allows for putting fuel in the preheating cup just to the left of the right burner.

This stove is in Ron Lenfield's collection.


This urn burner is made with a Coleman burner and other parts

so the appliance may have been made by Coleman as well.

However, Dick Sellers, whose collection this is in,

has not seen any paper documentation for this model

but notes that in the 1920's Coleman shipped thousands of urn burners..

The CQ fount is so identified but is undated.


Model 454 is an instant lighting Utility Burner

that is similar to the 456 Soldering Furnace

and dates to the late 1920's - early 1930's.

The fount is the same as on a CQ lamp.

The stove is finished in brown Colac paint; the collar has the original brown paint.

I painted the upper parts of the stove with high temperature black paint.


The Coleman Model 373 stove is unusual

in that the tank is below the burners.

The tank on this model is pressurized with an external pump;

the pump nipple can be seen on the right side.

This two burner stove dates to around 1930

and is in Jon Schedler's collection.

Coleman in Wichita continued to make Model 9 in the early 1930's.

This 9E, in Jim MacDougall's collection, is instant lighting.

The fuel valve wheel is tilted upwards in the end of the tank

because the fuel air assembly is straight so it reaches the bottom of the tank.

One of the earliest cabin stoves was this Model 376

made from January, 1933 and later.

This stove, in John Bell's collection,

cites an instant lighting patent, 1,718,473,

on the tag on the bottom middle front of the stove.

This model requires a separate pump.

Coleman in Wichita made the Model 6B stove in the early 1930's.

This stove has a printer's mark of F1033 (Oct. '33) on one of the labels.

The stove, in Les Davis' collection, has an Everdur tank

which is described as follows on the label in the top of the case:

"Electrically Welded - Not Soldered. 'Everdur' Is

a new patented metal with the strength of steel and

non rusting properties of copper, providing long life,

safety and durability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ."

Coleman made their Model 3F stove in the early to mid 1930's.

This unlabeled two burner stove, in John Stendahl's collection,

was identified by James MacDougall

who noted that the longer case (22") with 3 hinges fits the Model 3F stove.

The valve wheel for the left burner can be retracted inside the case when not in use.

The stove has an Everdur tank.

 

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