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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.