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This small torch lighting,
twin mantle table lamp was made by
the Gloria Light Co., Chicago,
IL,
and sold by the Best Light
Co., Canton, OH.
It was probably made between
1910-1925.
The steel base of the fount
of this lamp has rusted through.
This lamp is in Neil McRae's
collection
The Gloria Light Co. also
made this lamp.
This unidentified model
in Craig Seabrook's collection is not marked;
Neil McRae has designated
it Model "B" based on the burner,
until such time as more
catalogs appear to give it a more definitive identification.
Neil suspects that the
turban fount on this lamp
and the Knight
Light lamp below were made by Coleman.
This torch-lit lamp was
probably made by the Gloria Light Co.
It was sold by Incandescent
Light & Supply as their Model 80
and by Knight Light Co
as Model KK.
There are no markings on
the lamp.
Neil McRae was successful
in running this kerosene lamp (right).


Another torch-lit lamp that was probably made by the Gloria Light Co.,
likely dates to around 1915 based on its design and parts.
The lamp is unusual in having a built-in pump (right),
a feature that was not regularly incorporated into lamps until a decade or so later.
The lamp is missing the tip cleaner rod and wheel
that entered the bottom of the generator.
This lamp, in Matt
Reid's collection,
was almost certainly made
by the Gloria Light Company for the
Incandescent Light &
Supply Co, per Neil McRae.
The lamp came from an estate
that had two lamps from the same source,
the other being from Incandescent
Light & Supply Co.
We believe this torch lighting,
gasoline lamp was sold by the Home Mfg. Co., Des Moines, Iowa.
This two-mantled, 300 cp
lamp, in Neil McRae's collection,
is easily recognized by
the turned-down valve stem and wheel.
The shade and shade holder
are not original to this lamp.
To date we have been unable
to match any of its construction with known lamp manufacturers
If you have one of these
unique lamps, please contact me.


Imperial Brass Co. of Chicago
made this table lamp
around 1915-1920.
Designed as a kerosene
burner,
Neil McRae has it running
here on white gas (left).
The lamp has a generator
heater (right)
to assure that fuel reaching
the mantle
is vaporized well enough
to burn properly.
Kero Gas Lamp #3514 (label
on fount base) was made by
The Incandescent Light
& Stove Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
This lamp was probably
a torch-lit lamp
before it was converted
to "quick lite" with a Coleman burner.
The shade is number 318
by Coleman.



Justrite Mfg. Co. of Chicago
made two table lamp models,
without a built-in pump, left - in Neil McRae's collection,
and with a built-in pump (center).
The air chamber may have been added to hide the valve assembly.
This model has a unique check valve gasket in the built-in pump
that is lead, rather than cork or rubber (right).




Made by A.G. Kaufman, New
York, NY, these 335 cp kerosene "Senior" table lamps
varied primarily in handle
and fount ornamentation,
based on information collected
by Neil McRae.
Model 401 - Ionic (left)
is in Craig Seabrook's collection,
Model 402 - Colonial (next to left)
is in Kenny Connolly's collection,
Model 403 - Empire
(next to right) is in Neil McRae's collection,
and Model 405 - Rococo (right) is in Peter Cunnington's collection.


The 335cp kerosene "Junior"
model lamps are Kaufman's 604 (left)
& 605B (right) Greek
or Roman Torch.
They are 4" shorter than
the lamps above with a smaller, 1 pint fount (Neil McRae).
Kenny Connolly repainted
the steel fount on his lamp on the left
which has an ornate slip-on
cast iron base ring.
The original Verde green
finish is on the fount and handle of the lamp on the right,
which is in Craig Seabrook's
collection.
The A. G. Kaufman Manufacturing
Co.
also made this bracket
lamp.
The model number is unknown
but the burner was used
on at least a couple of table lamp models,
according to Neil McRae,
whose collection this is in.
This lamp is missing the
generator; the air intake is a square, horizontal tube.


The Knight Light Co., Chicago,
made this Sunray lamp which
they rated at 300 cp.
The burner and generator
(right image) appear to have been made
by the Gloria
Light Co., another Chicago company.
This lamp, with the original
shade, is in Dwayne Hanson's collection.
An advertisement dated
1922 features this lamp.
This lamp is badged Knight
Light Co. but is also stamped with a patent date
that was awarded to Robert
Doran, President of the Gloria Light Co., Chicago.
Neil McRae, whose collection
this is in, has designated it as Model "B"
as the Gloria
lamp above only the generator on this one is a later design.
Neil dates these lamps
to 1914-20.
Neil fitted the lamp with
a Humphrey's globe.
The lower grayscale image
shows that the burner has a upward diversion
with a "mantle cap" to
continuously heat the generator.


Leacock Coleman, Ronks,
Pennsylvania, made the Model 100 (left), 107ss (center) table lamps, and
Model W107ss wall lamp (right)
which are based on the
1920's Coleman Quick Lite CQ and BQ models and with Coleman style burners
(Neil McRae).
Model 100 has a steel fount,
handle, and shade holder that Dan Leeds had to repaint as the original
gold paint.
Model 107ss features a
stainless steel fount and handle.
Model W107ss, in Bob Meyer's
collection, also has the stainless steel fount and is dated Feb. 2003.
The table lamps have reproduction
Coleman 329 shades; all these lamps take a separate pump and are match
lighting.
Leacock Coleman is an Amish
company whose primary market is Amish.



A.J. Lindemann & Hoverson
Co., Milwaukee, WI,
made these Lind-O-Lite
Model table lamps, Model 333A (left), and 330A (centers & right).
The center image of the
lamp burner is of a lamp in Neil McRae's collection
There is a carburetor valve
in the fount of the 330A, an AGM creation
that was also used by Prentiss
Wabers and occasionally Coleman.
Model 330A lamp, with two
Lind-O-Lite shades, is in Jon Schedler's collection.
This Lind-O-Lite lamp is
unusual because it is a one mantle model.
Neil McRae believes the model number is in the 31_ series
as it is like Model 316 but with a different finish.
It appears to be earlier
than the above model but is instant-lighting, I believe.
The fount is steel with
a black crackle finish; the generator is a Coleman Q77.
This lamp, in Jerry Engbring's
collection, is missing the shade holder.