Lantern festival is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the traditional calendar. So it is a good day to light all the lanterns of mine. Here are 3 pressure lanterns: Anchor brand type 999 350cp 1983 Canada Coleman 242b 1941-D US Coleman 200a 1979 And also: Shanghai lantern factory KwangWha 245 1950s CampingMoon modern gas lantern T-1S 2022 Happy Year of the Tiger
Happy New Year @adrian yu Thank you for showing your happy lanterns What is the weather like in Beijing? Best wishes pb
Love the globe on the 242 It’s not a common globe at all and very thick……….be careful with it. Thanks for posting !!!!
@adrian yu Happy new year! Having a lantern festival sounds like a very civilised event to me! Good luck for the New Year!
It snowed heavily a few days ago and strong wind from russia and mongolia is coming. Really cold these days
haha it was brought back from Saudi for my boy a few years ago punch it face can make it shake for couple of minutes @Jean J
@Konabill !!! i never seening this kind of coleman globe before! i was really afraid the glass would break when it was shipping from US to China but i got a good luck yours is better than mine. My globe has 2 or 3 burned marks. I think the previous owner dont replace the mantle in time. Now im using a cheap replacement globe on the 242b.
Very nice lanterns there for the occasion. Happy Chinese New Year to you @adrian yu . May it bring prosperity, health and wealth in the year of the Tiger. Ethnic Chinese makes up the second biggest group in the total population of Malaysia. Therefore, its a major festival here as well. We used to have lots of fireworks and red Chinese firecrackers going off during the New Year to enhance the festive mood. Most of these being imported from China, others locally manufactured. Its a lot less now due to the nationwide ban on the sale of fireworks to the public here. I miss those days. At least, we're still having the lanterns.
What a great idea @adrian yu, i can think of a few world leaders I’d like to knock about at the moment, just to shake them up a bit.
Sounds like a cool event thank you. Is the Camping Moon the version available on AliExpress by chance? Great collection. Take care.
Hello @adrian yu and welcome to this forum. Happy Chinese New Year and your lantern lighting information is very interesting. Your Kwang-Hwa 245 is not that common and nice to see it lit. The 242B Coleman is also interesting and seems to be around the change between the earlier Canada 242B and the later models. Is there an oil hole in the pump cap? I have a couple of Anchor 999 lanterns of late 1980s vintage and they operate very well. I also have a Kwang-Ha 255 but I think that is a different brand to Kwang-Wha. The red Coleman looks in excellent condition too. Iain
@MYN I miss those days too. In some big cities in China people are not allowed to shoot off fireworks in recent years. It's really bad.
@Geronimo I like your name. The campingmoon little lantern is a limited edition and only 2022 units were made. You can try to find on "闲鱼" app. Its a chinese app like ebay. Search "T-1S 2022" then you can find it.
@Sedgman Yes there is a little hole on the 242b pump handle just like the pump of 200a. The type 245 are mainly ordered by amry and also export. Kwang-Wha and kwang-hwa, i think they are same brand. Kwang-Wha can also write to "Guang hua". In chinese is "光华" or "光華", means "beautiful light". The factory is one of the oldest lantern factories in China, builded in Shanghai 1930s. Anchor brand also belong to this factory.
Is the Kwang Wha factory in Shanghai still in operation? I read somewhere that its no longer in production. I have a number of Anchor(not Sea Anchor) lanterns myself.
@MYN Kwang Wha factory changed its name to “East red pressure lantern factory” during cultural revolution. The name was changed to “Shanghai lantern factory” after 1976. This factory no longer make lantern these years as i konw but it is the owner of some lantern produce pattents in China. Anchor brand belongs to two factories before，one is Shanghai lantern factory，the other one is “Xinxin” in Wuhan，Hubei province. Xinxin lantern factory was dismissed by gov decades ago. Sea anchor is a cheap copy of anchor brand，the factory is Cixi lantern factory in Zhejiang province.
Thanks Adrian, for the great piece of information. I don't own any Sea Anchors. I only have the Anchor and Light brand lanterns which I know were from China.
Thanks for the reply Adrian. The Guide to Vintage Coleman products shows two slight variations; an earlier 242B and a Later production 242B. I was just interested as yours has the earlier Tip cleaner but the later logo and as you advised the oil hole in the pump cap which is also later. I suppose the changes they make are gradual and use up the parts they have. Some of my lanterns are a bit like this too and don't exactly match the book descriptions. I realise now too that my lantern was a Kwang Wha. I had an error in my list of lamps. So appreciate your post and the information you have provided.
