@Jean J What is a Chautauqua.
[ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here is a Wichita kero burner air tube with insert from 12/1935, I have seen some not as pronounced and barely visible if at all sometimes....
//////////:::::::::………. Yes you are correct about the valve. The air tube indentions are not always evident especially on Wichita kerosene, and...
The burner and valve body is definitely Canadian in my eyes. Is standard for Toronto kero air tubes to have no patent stamping. I would pull the...
Godspeed Neil. You will be missed.
@Reinhard , thanks for the images. Judging by the components: third generation frame baseplate with deeper dish and no half moon cutout for...
/////////////:::::::::::…………. @Reinhard Very nice acquisition. . The “LQ 327” was the new designation beginning August/September 1918 along...
Beautiful ! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
//////////::::::::………… This 228B from the image of the baseplate although is not complete shows the “Instant Lite” and “220B” (even on all 228B)...
Thanks @Tony Press ///////::::::::::……… In order to see if there is anything visually unique with your lantern components we need to see some...
/////////:::::::::::……….. That is a light strike on the “B” making it appear as a “P”. Even the “228 B” was stamped “220 B” in the 1930-34 era.
//////::::::::……….. According to Hiram Strong original shipping records the first “L316” Arc shipments from Coleman to “Sunshine and Yale” were...
This is the earliest advertisement I’ve found for the “AL” that began shipping the following month after this. [ATTACH]
Advertising shows us the first Coleman Arc lanterns L316 and AL both were equipped with the single row hole collar. The images also show the...
Model no. 220B Uses T44 generator.
Separate names with a comma.
