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COLLECTIONS & COMPANY INFORMATION
FORUMS - Sites where you can ask your questions
The International Coleman
Collectors Club has a website
with members information
and pages, old Coleman paper, convention news, etc.
If you collect Coleman,
this organization is a must!
The International Guild
of Lamp Researchers has a website
from which you can ask
questions about lanterns and lamps,
search a database for
US lighting patents, and order publications.
COLLECTIONS & COMPANY INFORMATION
Roland Dworschak has a growing website in Austria of pressure
and non-pressure lighting and heating appliances
with detailed images.
Henk Kloosterman has a website
of wick lanterns (stormlamps),
especially those from Europe.
The website is in Dutch
but is easily navigated.
Shinzo Kono's website includes images of
gas
pressure lamps and lanterns
that he has collected/restored, as well as images from
collectors all over the world,
and an excellent guide
to restoration.
Erik Leger has a website in German that focuses on Continental Licht products
but also has other European
gas pressure appliances.
Chriss Maier & Micha Muschak have a Bavarian website
of their fine collection of lamps, lanterns, stoves, heaters, and irons.
You can also read the log and see images of all the meets they've attended.
Colin Mills is developing a website of his collection of
lanterns, lamps, and hollow wire,
including those he has found in his native Australia.
Alan Moore's Pressure Lamps
Unlimited website has a storehouse of useful
and interesting information
including images of lamps
and lanterns from collectors all over the world,
histories of pressure lighting
and manufacturers, and sources of spare parts
and repairs.
Herman Mulder has a homepage
that includes his collection
of lamps and stoves.
The page is linked to the
English version but also has a Dutch version.
Doron Papo, an Israeli
collector, is building a fine website of his international collection
of lanterns and lamps.
His site includes very
useful reference and links sections to other gas pressure websites
and an international fuel
names page.
Erwin Schaefer in Germany
has a website
that includes his lantern
collecting hobby.
His collection includes
both European and North American
lantern and lamp models.
Another interesting German website is Torsten Scherning's.
His site includes gas pressure
lighting and heating appliances.
Yoshihiro Sugimoto's website is aimed at Japanese collectors
But has excellent images
and details on Coleman pressure appliances.
Hans Thornblad has a website,
Blow Lamps Unlimited,
that features blow lamps
(blow torches), soldering irons,
furnaces, and similar heating
apparatus.
Wim van der Velden has
a website
in Dutch, English, and
German of European lamps and lanterns in his collection
and pages on the history
and development of gas lighting, particularly the Petromax brand.
Albert White has a comprehensive website
on the Handi Brand of stoves,
lanterns, and irons
that were manufactured
in Australia.
Anders and Per-Henrik Willman
have a nice website
of their lantern
and lamp collection
and links to a number of
other lantern related sites.
FORUMS - Sites where you can ask your questions
The Be-Back-Later website
includes a Forum
that attracts collectors
from around the world
and include discussions
of pressure lighting.
The Classic Camp Stoves website
is also a treasure house of
information - catalogues, instruction
sheets,
Primus product date codes,
patents, and stove company histories.
Classic Pressure Lamps is a website
with a growing membership and a treasure house of information
as the related Classic Camp Stoves website above.
The Coleman Collectors Forum is a popular website
where you can post questions
and find answers to questions about gas pressure appliances.
Gérard Métron has a fine website of gas and kerosene pressure lighting
in his collection as well as that of several friends plus a forum for discussion of gas pressure lighting topics.
The French website can be quickly translated to a variety of languages using Google translator on the main page.
Visit the Stuga-Cabana
Petroleum Forum website hosted by Jürgen Breidenstein
for questions and answers
on all kinds of pressure lamps in Europe.
You can also find current
gas lighting and stove products for sale on the linked pages of Stuga-Cabana.
An excellent place for learning
more about how pressure lanterns
and lamps work
is the Yahoo Coleman website.
Read the old messages where
there is a storehouse of information
Base Camp, a UK supplier
of lamps, heaters, stoves plus spare parts for them has an excellent website
that includes instructions
for lighting Tilleys and Vapalux lamps, exploded views,
books and manuals for sale,
etc. for products generally available in the UK.
English Custom Polishing
has a website
that includes a lot of
excellent advice and products for metal restoration
- a necessary part
of owning a lantern/lamp collection.
Visit Woody and Dawn Kirkman's website for "...the Most Complete Source
for
Dietz Hurricane Kerosene
Lanterns, Oil Lamps and Tubular Lantern Parts
in the World!"
Fred
Kuntz (or phone 440-352-9630) produces reproduction mica globes
and reproductions
of a variety of Coleman decals.
Craig
Seabrook has reproduction glass globes and hardwood wall shelves
for lanterns.
Contact Fred for a catalog as a .pdf file.
Lancaster Lanterns is an
Amish company that is not on the internet.
They stock Petromax parts and parts for Amish gas appliances.
They be reached at 5465
White Oak Rd., Paradise, PA 17562
or by calling their answering
service (10-10:30 ET) at 717-340-4678.
Dan MacPherson makes this
Coleman check valve tool, originally designed by Matthew Reid,
to remove and replace this
important part in Coleman appliances.
It comes with both sizes
of threaded rods to fit Coleman check valves so the tool cannot disengage
during extraction.
John Moncrieff Limited
has a website
that includes reproductions
of Tilley top hat shades,
Tilley and Vapalux globes
and parts, and Solar lanterns for sale.
The Old Coleman Parts website has many Coleman parts for sale
and parts diagrams for a variety of Coleman products.