Continental 3715/Benzine/Gasoline

I recently got this Continental 3715 from 1930’ies - If my guesstimate is right.
This particulary version seems rare as I have only been able to find the 3715/A (Rapid starter).
It works fine. Was quite easy to fettle although it took a bit of elbow grease to get all the old dust & dirt off it.
I am a bit sensible over the original globe - so if anybody would have a spare globe around 104mm wide/108 mm tall, I’d be ver happy to buy or trade for it. Thanks to @Erik Leger for being able to draw on his ekspertise here.

 

Wow, that's a very unusual lantern.

I'd love to see it lit up.

 

@Camp numao
(Globe here is from an Optimus 200)

 

It looks sooo cool

all the best,
Piotrek

 

Great lantern, Harder!


Cheers

Tony

 

Wonderful find, Harder.

John

 

That is a great rare lantern !
Congratulations.

 

A lucky find!

 

Thank you all

 

Hello Harder,

As I wrote recently, this is a really beautiful and well-preserved lantern!

I heard some time ago that Continental lanterns for German-speaking countries were marked “Pionier” and lanterns for export were marked “Pioneer.” Is there any evidence of this? Perhaps someone can comment on this?



Unfortunately, I can no longer find the photo showing the different markings...

 

Thanks for adding the photo.
It looks lit up beautifully!

It's great to see such a rare lantern lit up.

 

Very beautiful and interesting lanterns these Continental Licht.
Both the 3715 and 3715/A as well as other models. I'm particularly intrigue by the rapid design in some of these.
Not sure if the following patent describes which one of those:-

 

Thank you @leo and @Camp numao
If anyone might be able to comment on your question Leo - It would be @Erik Leger ?

 

Well, at least I have one and an other one is shown here:
WWW.COLAG.DE - Continental Licht

The shape of the tank is a little different to meet the British standards and some parts are marked "made in Germany" additionally.

I do not have printed evidence telling "Pionier lanterns are sold in mainland Europe" and "Pioneer lanterns are made for the UK" but it sounds reasonable at least.

Erik

 

These small size lanterns are extremely hard to find and it's nice to see one performing so well.

These lanterns were only slightly cheaper than the larger ones but gave less light with the same cost for spare parts.

So in my imagination a farmer who needs to buy a lantern and spend quite some coins on it would rather buy the large one.
We're talking about prices in the range of 400 to 500 euros at today's purchasing power equivalent (?). Nothing one would shell out easily.

Erik

 

Thank you Erik
I had no idea, these were that expensive back in the days.