Germany
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Model 1015 lantern (left)
and 5015AS (right) made by Continental-Licht
und ApparatebauGesellschaft
m. b. H. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Model 1015 has a double,
"Coleman style" 300CP burner; the lantern
may have been made in the
1920's, in Neil McRae's opinion.
It was snowing when this
image was taken.
Model 5015AS has a "Petromax
style" burner that reflects 3000CP.
This lantern appears to
date from the mid 1930's to early 40's.
These lanterns are in Erik
Leger's collection.


Continental-Licht's Model 5015A is different from 5015AS above
in that it lacks the shroud and Fresnel lens.
The large black fiber wheel (right) controls the fuel flow
while the small black fiber wheel controls the tip cleaner.
The four-armed metal valve contols the air flow to preheat
and the lever (A, right) is used to adjust the fuel air mix.
This 300 cp gasoline lantern is in Erik Leger's collection.
This Continental-Licht
searchlight lantern
which is also in Erik Leger's
collection, is Model 4615S.
A small door for lighting
is on the other side of the globe covering.
A lever below the globe
cage on the side not visible raises and lowers the tip cleaner.
Papers that came with this
lantern put the date of manufacture at 1929.


Continental Pionier Models
3615 (left and center-left running) and 3815A (center-right running and
right)
are kerosene fueled, 180
CP single mantle models.
Model 3615 has a lever
rather than a valve wheel as on the 3815A
to a needle to shut off
the flow of fuel through the orifice.
Model 3618A has the original
Colag glass globe and has a number of steel parts,
thus Erik Leger, whose
collection these are in, believes this model is a war-time product or made
shortly after WWII.


These 500 cp Day-Lite lantern
(left and center)
were perhaps made by the
same German company
that made the Picostar
(right), per Neil McRae.
The ventilator and base
rest slots are angled in these models.
The Day-Lite lantern on
the left was sold in Germany
while the other two were
imported to North America
The Day-Lite lantern (center)
is in Fred Kuntz's collection
while the Picostar lantern
is in Matt Reid's collection.

Another Day-Lite lantern, Model 201,
is a 200 cp model that is only 28 cm tall.
The fount gets hot quickly when the lantern is run.
As on the Day-Lite lanterns above, the valve wheel is marked CL and Germany.
The only markings on this
lantern are Petro Delux, Made in Germany, 350CP.
The lantern is preheated
with alcohol and is kerosene fueled.
Erik Leger found that the
parts of this lantern, which is in his collection,
are similar to a comparable
model Petromax,
as well as to lanterns
made by Petro-Pintsch (below) of Germany,
and Providus, of Italy.
This 300 cp kerosene lantern
in the petromax style
is stamped Petro-Pintsch
(Julius Pintsch AktienGesellschaft), Germany
on the fount and similarly
etched on the globe.
This unfired lantern is
in Christian Leopoldt's collection.

F. R. Racek, Bombay, India, imported lanterns from Germany under the Efar Brand.
This Efar model 608 lantern is stamped 100 C.P., Made in Germany,
and Quality Imports.
This kerosene lantern, in Bernhard Müller's collection,
is also stamped Hasag Model 34.
There is no manometer on the other side of the fount.
This lantern is identified
on the fount bottom: Louis Runge - Berlin.
Anton Kaim knew of German Patent 400248
that was issued on December
15, 1923 for this model.
The lantern, in Erik Leger's collection, is made of mostly brass parts and includes a tip cleaner;
the original generator
is gone but has been replaced with a Coleman R55.
The mica globe (not seen
here) was a likely replacement (Coleman) as well.
This lantern was probably
manufactured before 1928
by Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft,
HASAG brand, for
Provincial Incandescent
Fittings Co., PIFCO brand, in Manchester, England.
It is their 400 cp gasoline,
single mantle Model 1405.
Neil McRae polished this
lantern to brass
since the nickel plating
was almost gone.
Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft
or MEWA (see below)
made this Kerolux Model
103 lantern
for an importer in Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
This lantern, in Juan Caiti's
collection,
appears to be a 500 cp
model.
The only markings on this Hasag Liliput 100 cp kerosene lantern
is the badge on the fount: Alphons Senger, Apparatebau, Düsseldorf.
This lantern is in Bernhard Müller's collection.

This Model 22 Hasag Liliput is stamped Für Spiritus (alcohol).
The other side of the fount has a blue and yellow Hasag decal.
It is a 100 cp model (Neil McRae).
This lantern is in Bernhard Müller's collection.
The Hasag Model 34 is a
100 cp kerosene lantern.
From its good condition,
Neil McRae,
whose collection this is
in, assumes it is post WWII.
If so it was made by MEWA
in East Germany.
The tip cleaner needle
in this one is broken
which prevents its operation.

The Hasag Model 42 lantern
on the left, in Henry Plews's collection,
and Bat Model 42 on the
right, in Neil McRae's collection,
were made by Hugo Schneider
Aktiengesellschaft and MEWA respectively.
Neil notes the puzzle here
that the Bat is post 1949 and the Hasag is identical
but the Hasag brand was
supposed to have died in 1945.
Neil suspects that MEWA,
an East German company,
used the Hasag brand as
well as the MEWA brand during the 50's.
This Hasag Model 51OA is badged on the fount
and the underside of the reflector
for Alphons Senger, Apparatebau, Dusseldorf (Germany).
The lantern is in Karl Göbel's collection.
Compare to Model 51A below.

Hasag Model 51A was manufactured as early as the late 1920's.
Frederik Tivemark dates this lantern in his collection
to 1937-38 using catalogues.
The A designation is for alcohol preheating.
The lantern was rated at 270 cp.
The globe was made by MEWA with a lighting hole and marked Raso Therm.


MEWA (Metall Waren Kombinat),
Leipzig, Germany
made these Model 351L lanterns after WWII.
Tobias Jesse repainted the lantern on the left to the original color;
it has a glass globe with
a hole to light the preheater.
Frederik Tivemark's lantern on the right includes the original Jena Therm globe.
Neil McRae took the picture
of this unknown lantern
in Henry Plew's collection.
It is marked "882 Made
in Germany"
on a brass plate riveted
to the support collar.
Petromax made a Model 882
table lamp.
Hasag made other lanterns
with blue enamel
so it may be a post WWII
lantern made by MEWA.
Please email me if you have further information.
Standard-Licht-Gesellschaft
m.b. H., began as a German company
located in Frankfurt am Main,
and in Switzerland, probably Zurich (Leger).
All Standard-Licht lanterns are presented below.
This 200 cp Model 5022
Standard lantern
was manufactured by Standard-Licht-Gesellschaft
m.b. H.,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Neil McRae modified the
burner with a 250 cp gas tip
and opened the air gap
a little to get it running as seen here.

Standard-Licht also made this Model 5032,
150cp kerosene fueled lantern
This model, in Bernhard Müller's collection,
is preheated with alcohol.

Standard-Licht possibly
made this Model 2045F lantern in the 1930's.
It is 200-300cp but the
reflector makes it 2000 reflected cp.
The steel fount lantern
is unusual in being able to use gasoline
as it has a positive needle
valve shut-off
and the check valve is
on the shoulder of the fount (left in the images).
The lantern has a rapid
preheater just below a bend in the generator.
This lantern, in Neil McRae's
collection, is similar in design to Petromax
Model 850.

This Standard-Licht Model 2422 is a kerosene version of Model 2045 above,
according to Neil McRae who also notes that this model
lacks a second control wheel and has a preheater cup.
This lantern, in Ruedi Fischer's collection,
has a green enamel collar, frame, and vent;
the fount is green painted steel.

This Standard-Licht Model 4500 is Swiss made
and gasoline fueled.
McRae notes this model is 300 cp.
The lever on the left is for the rapid blow preheater
that appears as a tube opening along the generator.
This lantern is in Ruedi Fischer's collection.

This Standard-Licht Model 4522 is also Swiss made but is kerosene fueled.
Bo Keller found this lantern in Vietnam with the gray enamel shade.
Both the lantern and shade are marked Standard and Swiss Made.
The Jenaer Suprax globe is marked Made in Vietnam.

This Standard-Licht lantern is unmarked as to model.
The lantern, in Ruedi Fischer's collection,
has a gasoline preheater, vertical tip cleaner lever on the right,
and a gray enamel ventilator.

Two more Standard Models,
5122H (left) and 6112H (right).
Neil McRae was able to
run the 5122H by using a 250cp Petromax generator
Neil got the 350cp 6112H
lantern from Thailand.
The label seen on the base
rest appears to have
the importer's name in
three languages:
Chinese, Hindi, & Thai.


Standard Momento Models 6022 (left) and 6122 (right) are 250 cp kerosene lanterns.
Model 6022, in Ruedi Fischer's collection, appears in a 1940 catalog (Neil McRae).
Model 6122 dates to the 1950's and is in Jürgen Breidenstein's collection.
Both have rapid preheaters hence Momento in the model designation,
and both have manometers.
Standard-Licht-Gesellschaft
m.b. H.
also made this floodlight
which Neil McRae, whose collection this is in,
believes to be Model 3517M.
This is a gasoline fueled
model based on the lock down needle valve on the pump.
The fount holds 2 liters
of fuel.