The Tingkwon Lamp and Stove Manufacturing Ltd., Hong Kong,

made this Eye brand lantern.

It is marked 500 cp and an image of an eye is stamped into the side of the fount.

This alcohol preheating kerosene lantern is in George Burl's collection.

Tito Landi, Paris, France, made this Model 33 lantern;

it appears in a 1933 catalog by that company.

This gasoline lantern is in Torsten Scherning's collection.

A wick carries fuel up from the fount to a chamber

that develops the small but necessary pressure

from the heat of the upright mantle to force the vaporized fuel out of the orifice.

The lamp is rated at 200 cp and has an original mantle.

This unidentified lantern was found in a cave on Saipan
that had been occupied by Japanese forces during WWII.
The military sent it to Coleman for analysis.
This 21 cm tall lantern held enough alcohol
to burn for 3 hours at 30 cp.
This lantern is in Jerry Engbring's collection.

Two Unimet lanterns, Model GL-1 (left) and GL-4 (right)
were made in Hong Kong by Union Metal Works.
The GL-1 shares some design features with the Ash Flash and the Kamp Lite (AGM) models,
but also has an "international" look with the use of red and chrome
seen on lanterns from other countries and the Coleman Col-Max models.
The GL-4 is a double mantle model that has a triangular air/fuel mixing chamber
above the burner tubes and an "inverted cup" base rest (top and side surfaces).

Union Metal Works may have made this Camper Brand Model 1 lantern (left)

which is the very similar to their Model No. 3 (right).

The collar on the undated Camper is stamped Made in Hong Kong,

and the fount is also marked Burns Leaded or White Gas.

The collar on the No. 3 is dated 1965 as well as Made in Hong Kong;

and the fount is also marked Burns Leaded or White Gas.

These lanterns, in Glenn Knapke's collection, include the original globes.

This Unimet lantern is in Ian Washer's collection in the UK.
It has not been restored.
This model is unusual in its similarity to a Tilley storm lantern.
The image was taken by Neil McRae.

A Ditmar Maxim Model 519 lantern that was manufactured by
Vereunigte Emaillierwerke Lampen und Metallwarenfabriken Aktiengesellschaft, Wien, Austria.
This model was perhaps made in the 30's by this Austrian company
after Germany had taken over the country.
It is a 300 cp lantern with all the working parts in good order,
according to Neil McRae, but the base rest is missing
and the fount has a crack at the base rim so he suspects it will not run.

This Ditmar Maxim Model 520 lantern is also stamped

Made in Austria on the fount.

The lantern, in Roland Dworschak's collection,

is a kerosene fueled, alcohol preheated, 350 cp model.

Ditmar Maxim Model 541 is a 300cp kerosene lantern with built-in pump
and single mantle, although it resembles a cold blast, flat wick lantern.
Neil McRae, whose collection this is in, notes that
the lantern is nickel-plated steel construction.
This model shows up occasionally in Australia.
The globe is a replacement.

Ditmar Maxim Model 501 is a 300cp kerosene lantern

in a more conventional design than Model 541 above.

This lantern, in Chriss Maier's and Michaela Muschak's collection,

is preheated with alcohol.

Ditmar lantern Models 581 (box-left & center) and 593 (right) are 100cp and 25cm tall.
Model 581 is kerosene fueled and is seen operating here.
Neil McRae, whose collection this is in, dates it to the mid 1950's.
Model 593 is date stamped September 1941 and is gasoline fueled.
The tip cleaner is built into the shut-off valve
and operates with every revolution of the valve wheel.

This lantern is only stamped Ditmar Maximette

with the logo and Made in Austria.

It is a 100 cp gasoline lantern in Bernard Müller's collection.

It has two unusual features: 1. the bail is jointed in the middle and has

a wire handle top, and 2. the pump handle is a cap that covers the rest of that part.

This lantern is also only stamped Ditmar Maximette with the logo and Made in Austria.

Agtas Tahsin, whose collection this is in, identifies the model as 581,

and believes it was either a bunker lamp to shield the light

or it was designed for heating with the sliding door closed.

It is further unusual in being a two mantle model (right).

Another Ditmar model with the same shield was made in 1935 for the Austrian Army

and came in a box with spare parts and accessories (Tumidajewicz) .

This lantern is stamped Radiosol 850
and is marked Fabricacion Volcan Industria Argentina.
This lamp with its removable shade ring
is in Neil McRae's collection.

Wenzel, a St. Louis, Missouri, company
imports this 500 cp, kerosene fueled Petromax clone from China,
where it is possibly made by Santromax Ltd.
It comes packed in a wood box with a shade and all the accessories.
This one is dated Jan 10, 2002.

This Model 59 hurricane lantern was made in Australia by the Wizard Lighting Co.
It appears to be a 400 cp model and has an aluminum ventilator.
The generator and burner have similarities
to items made by Nagel-Chase Mfg. Co., Chicago, Illinois, USA.
This lantern is in Albert White's collection.

This Yüksel brand lantern appears to Neil McRae,

whose collection this is in, to be a copy of an Optimus 200.

The lantern is a 200/250 cp kerosene model

that is also stamped Türk Mali - Made in Turkey.

The iMS logo (right) appears on the fount, frame base plate, and ventilator.

If anyone has information on the manufacturer, please contact me.

This Model 426 Zeppelin brand lantern
was probably manufactured in Asia.
The lantern, in Jim Watt's collection, was once nickel plated
and includes a fuel gauge (right) and pressure gauge (not visible).
The bottom is stamped 63/No 16805
so the lantern may date to 1963.