Here are the pics of my latest find. Thanks to everyone who helped identify it for me. There are some nice touchs, I particularly like the "little ears" for the handle and the key hole in the carriage where the feed tube comes through from the font. One would need to be fairly accurate in making the feed tube. Which in this case has been replaced. I would like to get some detail on how it is meant to be... Would it have a jet?
OK this is just rare not very rare. It is the last of the model that used that hood. Dates from 1921 to 1922. That burner is US patent 1451123 applied for 23 Jul 1921 granted 10 Apr 1923. So this version cannot have been made earlier than 1921 and in the 1923 catalogues the next variation is shown with a more normal shaped hood and diamond shaped vents in the collar. This is of course why it is rare because it was only made for about one year. ::Neil::
Thanks Neil, I really appreciate the time you have taken to pass on your knowledge. You have done so a few times especially on the harder lanterns I could never identify. This will make it my second rare American lantern. I would like to try and get the copper tubing redone. Would you have any info on one. I see in other posts it should be a S shape.
I know I am replying to an old post but I have an Akron Diamond lamp with the same configutation and it also has a loop and not an S. I believe this to be the original part. Mine was brass not copper.
It may well be an original although certainly not a common generator on Akron lamps found in the US. That coil type does turn up on English Evening Star and Kildark lamps sometimes and they were originaly imported Akron. They are always brass. I am not aware of generator tubes of any persuasion in copper. ::Neil::
