Hi all: Here are two photo's of my wife and I camping with the same equipment taken many years apart. The top photo was taken at a Southern California CCS gathering two years ago. The same Quick-Lite and Clayton& Lambert stove are in both photos. Mike...
Mike, you two look great! I have the Coleman 413C stove and Coleman folding table that my Grandmother used on a winter skating and picnic party in 1954. The chairs as you may recall unfold like and "X" with a red cloth seat. My sister and I took turns sitting on the seat sideways so that the legs acted like runners on skates and the dogs took us for rides on the frozen surface at the end of a rope. That was one of my favorite memories of my youth. Sometime later, after my Grandmother passed, I dug these items out of her barn and repeated the same event with my kids. I have been collecting ever since. My kids are all grown up now and have husbands. Every summer we go camping for a weekend with the stove and table in tow. Also a few lanterns to light the party. Other campers marvel at how well our campsite is lit. It's now a tradition. Thanks for sharing your memories, Peter _____ “Well, being there’s no other place around the place, I recon this must be the place, I recon! Ynuk! Ynuk! Ynuk!” Curly Howard
Good memories fellow lampers! I live within the 60th degree of latitude, so camping was not something that we bothered with. However, I was born to the light of a Tilley wall lamp, I was born at home, at ten minutes past three on the afternoon of the winter solstice in 1955 and it would have been pitch dark by then, so it makes sense that the Tilley would have been lit. The power did not arrive until about 1963 in my home area and it was not very reliable, it rarely lasted for 6 hours per day, so the lamps were in daily use. In even more remote parts of Shetland the power did not arrive until well into the 1970's. We also had a Tilley PL 53 which was used in the sheds, it gave light and heat when the cows were being milked and the old familiar hiss was also a comfort. In the local hall there were three Tilley donut lamps; to light the dance floor two IL34s were used and to light the bandstand an IL33. There were lamps in the hall kitchen and elsewhere but I think that they were just wick lamps. Most weddings took place in the winter back then, those social events helped to pass the long winter nights. Tilley donut lamps were used in most of the halls in the countryside in those days and in the Kirks, (Churches). I have an IL33 and an IL34, both of which had been used in halls in Shetland, my Tilley CL72 was used in a local KIrk and was passed on to the local hall in that area when the Kirk got the power. The old houses were draughty, so the heat from the Tilley was welcome and it still is when there is a power cut! I mostly use a 1930's Tilley TL10 in the house when there is a power cut, but I also use it just because I like the fine white light and it's very homely. In my shed (workshop) I use a 500cp Petromax lantern, it gives a great light, they are a bit noisy though and they are no use outside when it's windy, a Tilley or a Vapalux lantern is better. About 16 years ago, when I mentioned to my old aunt that one of my hobbies was the collection and restoration of lamps. She looked at me with a cheeky smile on her face and a mischievous gleam in her eyes and said, boy, I think that you are fully mad! I have many more lamping memories, but that shall do for now.
I only tripped into his hobby by being a backpacker at age 40. My Father had no love for camping saying he slept on or in the dirt for four years.(World War Two) He had no urge to sleep in a tent or cook with gasoline. I quess washing your socks,brushing your teeth,sterilizing water and cooking your dinner in one helmet could dampen your love of the outdoors. He also spent years living in tents in the CCC during the depression building roads across the country. Dan
Hi Dave: The stove is the same size as a Coleman 3 burner but weights about 60lbs. It is a very deluxe stove made in 1928. You can read and see a photo essay I did about it on the CCS site in the American section of the "reference gallery" in the "other brand" category on the second page about half way down. It is also pictured on the Terry Marsh site. Mike
Hi Juan: The picture was taken years ago by a now deceased dear friend. He did his own developing and this is the way it came out. I believe he did it this way to achieve an older look. Mike...
It was just a joke, Mike. Answering your title question, I'm just a collector so I did never used a lamp/lantern more than a few hours.
