Coleman Poultry Lantern

I was lucky enough to acquire this poultry lantern a few months ago.........Wasn’t interested in a full “restoration” just wanted the the lantern to work properly and I really wanted the “chickens that lay” stencil to be legible.
I mildly cleaned all components and added a clear Mica globe replacement.
The stencil was given to me several years ago and I was finally able to use it.

 

Sharp looking lamp, I'd love to get my hands on one.

 

I'm intrigued, is the top section above the fuel tank basically from an existing model and if so, which one? Nicely restored by the way.

 

@ColinG
Quick-light lantern with a larger fount
From millioncandlepower

 

A fine addition to your collection!

 

@Konabill
Beautiful work.

L327 requiring a separate pump. E20 Poultry House lantern produced 1923-1931. E20 ‘Jumbo’ lantern (marketed as that and not as a ‘Poultry’ lantern) was equipped with an L427 lantern with an integral pump.

[Courtesy ‘Guide to Vintage Coleman Products’ - International Coleman Collectors Club]

John

 

@Konabill , Very nice example.
208 were shipped from October-December 1923.

@presscall, the Guide is not correct in respect to differentiating between 327/427 by the “Poultry” / “Jumbo” stenciling.
Coleman catalog, advertising and examples found prove the “Jumbo” was marketed in tandem in both 327/427 versions for a while, the components of these progressed in time like their standard fount lanterns.


@Mackburner

Larry

 

@coleman54 Aha! I appreciate that insight.

 

As I mentioned above, the lantern head component transitions continued through time with the standard,
Fount pump types also transitioned.
The “built on” type large “rounded” pump knob from early mid 1925 to the familiar standard lantern “convex” later 1925-on type knob.
After 1928 catalog information list the built in pump, sadly I have not witnessed an actual example myself yet.


@Mackburner
@presscall

Larry

 

@coleman54 Again, Larry, my thanks for the information, and for going to the trouble to compile such detail. Fascinating.

John

 

@coleman54 @presscall
Thank you both for the added information.
It’s been a blast working on this one.......

 

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say but I do like the wording on the label. Can’t argue with that!

 

Nice job.
You have restored it as vintage looks.

 

Wow the amazing mate great find and I love the stencil, you never know when you will use something well done.

 

I sure could use a stencil like that. Do you know any source for them?

 

Ok…..here it is doing its job !!
Definitely an attention getter………

 

Thanks for the video. Good to see.

So, ‘X’ times longer to fill the lantern than a normal sized tank but with ‘X’ times the duration before a refill.

 

@presscall
It just shows that the engineers who designed this lantern never actually used it……or they definitely would’ve enlarged the fuel inlet….

 

You should keep in mind that when these lanterns were being produced through the 1920s, funnels were without filtering and likely not even a screen wire, so fuel could be added a lot faster than a modern one with felt filter. The Junior lanterns that began in the 1930s, bung and cap were about half the size of these, talk about a pain!

@Konabill @presscall

Larry