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Justrite Mfg. Co. in Chicago, IL, made two lantern models of which we are aware.

Both are two mantled gasoline models and are found with rounded or beveled founts.

Model 25 in the upper row lacks a pump while Model 30 in the lower row has a built-in pump.

Instruction sheets for these models have printers' dates of Jan. 1926.
The lantern in the lower left is in Craig Seabrook's collection

while the ones on the upper right & lower right are in Neil McRae's collection.

While this lantern is badged for the Knight Light Co., Chicago,

it was almost certainly made by the Gloria Light Co. also of Chicago.

Neil McRae has designated these unknown Gloria models by letters;

this is Model "R".

The lantern is copper plated, an unusal finish.


Lancaster Lanterns makes the Model 720 Nite-Hawk lantern.

The lantern on the left and adjacent is a prototype, fitted on the left with a new ventilator.

As tested (next to left) the original ventilator was cut back to test heat escape.

The production model in Neil McRae's collection (next to right) has been replaced

with a larger fount version, as in Henry Plews's collection (right).

Features include a stainless steel fount & pressure gauge.

This Amish kerosene lantern is very bright with two 500 cp mantles!


These Lind-O-Lite lanterns were manufactured by the

A.J. Lindemann & Hoverson Co., Milwaukee, WI.

Both have a carburetor valve and the number 684-369 on the burner.

The lantern on the left, in Craig Seabrook's collection,

is likely their first model as it has a early patented external fuel feed.
the lantern on the right, in Neil McRae's collection is Model 110A,

that includes an internal fuel feed and has separate tip cleaner.

These Lind-O-Lite models are the same as Models 110 (left) and 115 (right)

except they are finished in black and have different collars (McRae).

These carburetor valved models have internal fuel feeds

as Model 110A above but lack the separate tip cleaners

so are comparable to 110 and 115.

Lind-O-Lite lantern Model 116 appears in a 1933 catalog.

It is instant lighting, has one mantle, and is gasoline fueled.

It uses a generator with a built-in tip cleaner (right).

Neil McRae repainted the black fount; the ventilator is dark blue.


Lind-O-Lite lantern Models 125 (left) and 125A (right),

lack carburetor valves but are also designed for instant lighting.

There is a hole drilled in the glass for lighting the mantles (right).

Model 125, in Neil McRae's collection, uses a generator with a built in tip cleaner,

while Model 125A has a separate tip cleaner control.

These lanterns are in a 1933 catalog.


This lantern was made by the Little Wonder Light Co., Terre Haute, Indiana.

It may have been marketed as a poultry lantern.

A hollow wire lamp with similar burners was advertised as having 1250 cp!

The heat output of this lantern led someone to drill additional air holes

in the ventilator cap, which deformed from the intense heat output.

The globe, cage, and ventilator were restored by Fred Kuntz and Craig Seabrook.


The Model A pressure lantern Aladdin was manufactured by

The Mantle Lamp Co. of America, Chicago, USA.

This kerosene model, which dates to 1934, is in Larry Pennell's collection.

This lantern is a natural brass finish; others known are nickel-plated brass.

Please contact me if you know of any lanterns of this model.


This PL-1 was made by the Mantle Lamp Co. of America, Chicago, IL,

from 1939 to about 1947 with a hiatus during the war years.

This is the probably the first "modern" lantern that Fil knows of

that has the vaporized fuel injected into the top of the mixing chamber,

and evidently was the design prototype to the military lantern.

Neil McRae notes that it can be run on kerosene or gasoline and has an adjustable air

intake to enable the burner to work with the same efficiency.

This lantern is in Fil Graff's collection.

This model came with a match holder, right image,

seen here in Neil McRae's collection.


The Mantle Lamp Co. of America probably made

this prototype donut lantern in the late 1940's.

 Patents and another prototype in the current Aladdin Mantle Lamp Company's office

suggest that this may have been an experiment to design a civilian

as well as a military donut model.

Shadow reduction is the aim in this design.


The Mantle Lamp Co. of America may have made a short run of these lanterns

for the military to test, as did Coleman.

This one, in Dan Gommel Jr's collection,

has a globe that lacks the bottom opening for lighting.

As the globe on the version by Coleman lacks this opening,

the globes may have been switched between the two models.


This is a McGraw-Edison (Boonville, MO) lantern-stove combo, Model 681004.

The bail holds the lantern burner and ventilator on the globe cage.

The conversion to the stove from the lantern

involves lifting off the lantern head and slipping the stove burner tube over the generator.

The reflector is removable.

This lantern-stove combo, in Bob Meyer's collection,

came in the green plastic storage case.

 

Main updated Feb. 18, '12
Akron Lamp Co. lanterns updated Nov. 9, '11
Akron Lamp Co. lamps updated Oct. 13, '11
American Gas Machine lanterns - early models updated Dec. 17, '11
American Gas Machine lamps updated Jan. 22, '12
AGM lanterns - models beginning with the mid-1930's updated Mar. 15, '11
AGM, King Seeley, & Thermos stoves updated Feb. 18, '12
AGM, King Seeley, & Thermos lanterns - later models updated May 9, '11
Coleman Canada lamps updated Apr. 12, '11
Coleman Canada lanterns pre- 1945 updated Jan. 17, '12
Coleman US lamps before mid-1920's updated Sept. 24, '11
Coleman Canada lanterns 1946 - 1970 updated Feb. 14, '12
Coleman US lamps after mid 1920's updated Mar. 30, '11
Coleman Canada lanterns 1971 - 1993 updated Feb. 10, '12
Coleman hollow wire lighting updated Mar. 14, '11
Coleman US lanterns pre-1931 updated Feb. 10, '12
Coleman irons updated Mar. 26, '11
Coleman US lanterns 1931 - 1945 updated Feb. 8, '12
Coleman Canada stoves updated Nov. 29, '11
Coleman US lanterns 1946 - 1960 updated Apr. 2, '11
Coleman US stoves until early-1930's updated Nov. 9, '11
 Coleman US lanterns 1961 - 1980 updated Nov. 9, '11
Coleman US stoves mid-1930's - early-1950's updated Feb. 18, '12
 Coleman US lanterns 1981 - 2000 updated Aug. 8, '11
Coleman US stoves mid 1950's - present updated Nov. 29, '11
Coleman US lanterns 2001 - present updated Mar. 30, '11
Custom lamps, lights, heaters, and stoves updated Aug. 4, '11
Custom lanterns updated Dec. 14, '11
Heater etc. manufacturers A - K updated Feb. 10, '12
Ehrich & Graetz/AIDA & Petromax lanterns updated Apr. 25, '11
Heater etc. manufacturers L - Z updated Aug. 24, '10
Germany lantern manufacturers updated May 3, '11
Hollow wire lighting updated Jan 29, '12
International lantern manufacturers A - G updated Nov. 16, '11
International lamp manufacturers A - D updated Mar. 31, '11
 International lantern manufacturers H - P updated Feb. 15, '12
International lamp manufacturers E - O updated Jan. 27, '12
 International lantern manufacturers Q - S updated Dec. 15, '11
International lamp manufacturers P - Z updated Feb. 18, '12
 International lantern manufacturers T - Z updated Sept. 30, '11
Irons updated Sept. 23, '11
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers A - B updated Sept. 2, '10
Links updated Nov. 16, '11
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers C updated Feb. 16, '12
 Stove manufacturers A - H updated May 25, '11
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers D - M updated Sept. 2, '10
Stove manufacturers I - P updated Feb. 18, '12
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers N - Z updated Nov. 5, '11
Stove manufacturers Q - Z updated Feb. 6, '12
Pump manufacturers A - D updated Mar. 29, '11
Sweden lamp manufacturers updated Apr. 30, '11
Pump manufacturers E - Z updated Apr. 2, '11
Sweden stove manufacturers updated Feb. 2, '12
Sweden lantern manufacturers updated Nov. 9, '11
Tilley household lamps pre-1945 updated Nov. 13, '10
Tilley lanterns updated Jul. 14, '08
Tilley household lamps post-1945 updated June 6, '08
UK lantern manufacturers updated Jan 27, '12
Tilley industrial lamps & lanterns updated Apr. 12, '10
US lantern manufacturers A - I updated Apr. 2, '11
US lamp manufacturers A - F updated May 26, '11
US lantern manufacturers J - M updated Feb. 14, '12
US lamp manufacturers G - L updated Feb. 6, '12
US lantern manufacturers N - O updated Jan. 4, '12
US lamp manufacturers M - O updated Dec. 12, '11
US lantern manufacturers P - Z updated Dec. 1, '11
US lamp manufacturers P - Z updated Jan. 18, '12
Wrench & other lamp tool manufacturers A - F updated Aug. 8, '11
Wrench & other lamp tool manufacturers G - Z updated Feb. 2, '12

 

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