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This unmarked lantern was probably made by the Pitner Gasoline Lighting Co., Chicago, IL,

based on the burner caps, orifice and filler cap,

that are all the same as on that company's Model 2001 lamp.

The cast iron burner (right) has a door to clean the tip on this torch lighting lantern,

which is in John Eggert's collection.


Prentiss Wabers Products Co. in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin,

made these Model L13 lanterns

that are one of two models shown in their catalog dated 1934.

This early model has the pump combined with the filler cap,
as on Model L14 (below left).

In their later models these two parts were separated in the fount.

The lantern on the left is in John Shook's collection.


These single mantle Preway models
have the characteristic slotted ventilator and winged fuel cap of this brand.
Model L14 (two on the left) for Sears have a combined pump, fuel cap and came with a mica globe.

This model appears in Catalog No. 16 dated 1934.

Model L14A (center) for Montgomery Ward lacks the direction disk on the separate filler cap.

Model L44S (right) for Sears has the same burner as the L14's and a direction disk on the separate filler cap.

The lantern on the far left is in Bruce Strauss' collection.


Another Junior model, L47PA uses gasoline or kerosene.

This lantern, in Joe Pagan's collection,

has an original Macbeth globe that was made with a hole for lighting.

The lantern also has a well-made two piece reflector

that can also be swung open to broadcast the light.


Preway Model 742-43 with a green painted fount (left)

and 742 43-9 with a nickel plated fount (right); both made for Sears.

These double mantle lanterns have the original mica globes

with a windowed door in the mica globe for lighting.

The lantern on the right is in Joe Pagan's collection.


An unusual lantern design from Prentiss-Wabers Co.,

this Preway Model L46S was also made for Sears and sold as Model 742-461.

 The globe on this model has a hole drilled in it for lighting the mantles.

This lantern is very heavy,

weighing about 7 pounds.


The bottoms of these lanterns are stamped:

San Diego Lamp and Mfg. Co., San Diego, California, Patented 1924.

A horizontal cut in the brass stem just above the valve on the left (center image)

allows air to mix with the gas for preheating.

The lantern on the left is in Fil Graff's collection.

The mica globe (not shown - right image) pushes up under the ventilator for lighting.

SF Appliances Ltd., Ridgefield, New Jersey,

made this Model 106 kerosene fueled lantern,

that has lighting directions in English and Spanish.

We believe SunFlame models were intended for export.

This lantern is in Bo Keller's collection.

Another Model 106 Made in England can be seen here.


The SF company also
made this Model 107 lantern in the 1950's.
It burns either kerosene or gasoline;

a narrow preheater is fitted around the base of the generator.

This lantern has characteristics of both Akron Lamp

and American Gas Machine Companies products

reflecting the merger of those companies in that time period.


SF Appliances Ltd. also made this Model 109 which is similar to the 107 above.

This model has a nickel plated fount and the burner is a more substantial casting.

Joe Pagan, whose collection this is in, found this lantern in Bolivia.

Someone made a replacement globe from glass strips

and aluminum can strips for the globe frame.

The pump appears to be a replacement from another appliance.

SF Model 110 is a kerosene only model

with a preheater alcohol cup.

This lantern, in Bo Keller's collection, includes the original globe.

It is marked Heat Resisting and Made in the U.S.A.


SF Model 112 is a 500cp kerosene fueled lantern

that is very similar to the earlier AGM 3470 and SF Model 106 above.

This lantern has a chrome plated brass fount and original bulge globe

as shown in the instruction and parts sheet that came with it.

The paperwork is dated March, 1955.

This lantern also came with the  original wrench and alcohol bottle.


This Nulite lantern made by National Stamping & Electric Works of Chicago

is stamped Sunshine Safety Lamp Co. Kansas City, Missouri.

As Nulite it is Model 2 and a torch lighting model with a tip cleaner.

I don't know the name or model that Sunshine Safety gave this lantern.

The lantern has a nickel plated brass that has stress cracks

and it cannot be run.


Based on the burner design this lantern

was manufactured by the Gloria Light Co. of Chicago, Illinois,

for the Sunshine Safety Lamp Co., Kansas City,

whose label is soldered to the bottom of the fount.

The bail is a reproduction based on another Gloria Light Co. lantern

and the mica globe was borrowed from this other lantern.


Another model for their Sunshine Safety company (post 1923),

this lantern was made by the Coleman Lamp & Stove Co.
and has many of the same parts as Quick-Lite Model L327.

The collar, generator, and cap nut are different from that model.

The center globe cage base disk is stamped

Sunshine Safety Lamp Co., Kansas City, MO.

This MF-143 lantern appears in a 20th Anniversary catalog, circa, 1932,

after Coleman had changed the company name to Sunshine Products Co.

although the baffle plate is stamped Sunshine Safety Lamp Co.

The ventilator on this lantern was the same one sold to convert

a Quick-Lite lantern to an L227.

This lantern, that is missing the bail, is in Don Colston's collection.


This Thomas Kerosafe lantern, Model M1004,  was made

by the Thomas Mfg. Co., Dayton, OH.

It is a kerosene model as the name implies.

This working lantern is missing the mica globe

which has two reinforced holes to allow passage of the horizontal air intake tubes.

It is in Neil McRae's collection.


I believe that this unmarked two mantle lantern was made by

the Tures Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

based on a small image of a Tures lantern in a magazine from the 1910's

The vertical rod (right) raises the tip cleaner in the generator

another version of this lantern lacks this complicated generator.

The lantern is also unusual in having a wire guard for the mica globe.


This is a Model 711 lantern

made by the Turner Brass Works, Inc., Sycamore, IL.

This lantern has the Turner decal on the fount.

Note the hole in the mica globe to light the mantle.

This 150 cp model was made in the '30's until perhaps the mid 40's.

Neil McRae restored this lantern including repainting.



Model X-159 (top left), Model 1501 (top right),

Model 1511 (bottom left), and Model 1512 (bottom right),

were also manufactured by Turner Brass.

They can be recognized as Turner by their distinctive two valve system.

These lanterns are in Craig Seabrook's collection

except for the Champion badged 1501 (upper right) which is in Thom Kivler's collection.


Turner Brass Works made this 911 Model lantern

as an economical alternative to the 1511 Model above.

In a product sheet dated March, 1936

they noted that it had the same fount and "fool proof mechanism"

as the more expensive model.

The ventilator is steel with parts chrome plated, not enameled.


After looking at the preceding images, you can see that these lanterns

have elements of both Prentiss-Wabers and Turner models,

but were probably made by Turner based on the burner and fuel line parts.

They are branded Brooklure on the fount decal and Model 5035 on the globe rest label;

Brooklure was a brand name of Spiegels, a department store chain.

The hang tags on the lantern on the right, in Joe Pagan's collection,

are dated December 14, 1939; the globes have holes for lighting.



Coleman may have made this lantern for their Yale Lamp Co. subsidiary around 1920.
The fount is steel and it has a straight air tube, not curved, as on the documented YLQ.

Except for the diamond shaped to bolt marked Yale (upper image)

there are no marks on the lantern, which is in John Eggert's collection.

Please contact me if you find a lantern like this one.

This description benefited from Neil McRae's expertise.

 

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