This double mantled lantern was manufactured by Prentiss-Wabers Products Co. Wisconsin Rapids,
Wisconsin and sold by Sears as Model 742-43.
Prentiss-Wabers sold a lot of products through Montgomery Ward and Sears but also
used their own trade name "Preway".
This lantern has a light green painted "steel" fount with a large fuel cap and a porcelain enamel ventilator.
Unfortunately it has no original mica globe.
The image below is quoted from Dave Sokolow's collection
with his permission. Thanks Dave.
Another Prentiss-Wabers' model, L44S, made for Sears.
This single mantled gasoline lantern has a light green painted brass fount and a porcelain enamel ventilator.
Its curved glass globe is a replacement.
This one is a Prentiss-Wabers Products Co. model, made for Sears as a Sears Junior 742-47.
It appears to be made as a dual fuel, gasoline & kerosene, and has a reproduced mica globe.
This is a Prentiss Wabers Model L46S made for Sears Roebuck & Co., labeled Model 742-461
and is quoted from Terry Marsh's collection with his permission.
It has a hole drilled in the globe to light the mantles.
Since the globe rest extends to the outer edge of the globe cage,
they did not provide a match access from underneath the globe cage for lighting.
It is also a very heavy lantern, perhaps 3 kg with white gas in the fount.
Thanks Terry.
This is a Model 1511 lantern made by the Turner Brass Works,
Inc., Sycamore, IL, USA.
It has the Turner decal on the side of its fount which was made of steel.
Originally it came with a mica globe which had a hole to light
the mantles, now it has a replacement mica globe.
Again this is a Turner Model X159 gasoline lantern.
It has an instruction & model number label on its base rest and most of its parts were made of "steel" except burner assembly.
Unfortunately the original mica globe & ball nut were gone.
The two control nobs on a Turner are complicated. The small one opens a fuel and
air feed to the generator and is used to start the lantern. Once it is
burning hot enough, this small control is closed and the larger one is
opened which supplies fuel only to the generator. This larger one also
incorporates a tip cleaner.
Here is another Turner lantern, Model 711 and is quoted from Dave Reinhartsen's collection
with his permission. Thanks Dave.
Although this double mantled gasoline lantern has no identifying marks, it is a
"Lind-O-Lite" made by A.J.Lindemann & Hoverson Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin,USA.
I've not confirmed the model number yet.
It has a black painted brass fount and a wide black porcelain ventilator.
Both base frame & base rest are made of steel. It has an unique carburetor control valve which is mounted in the fount.
This double mantled kerosene lantern is a Thomas Kerosafe Model M1004 made by Thomas Manufacturing Company, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Although it has no base rest, this is the original design.
It has a gas tip cleaner at bottom of its vaporizer and most of its parts were made of steel and presumably came from early 1920s.
Originally It had a mica globe which had two holes to allow passage of the horizontal air-intake tubes.
This single mantled gasoline lantern is from Acorn Brass
Manufacturing Co., IL., USA.
I've not confirmed the model number yet.
It has a nickel plated brass fount and a gas tip cleaner control lever at the top part of its generator.
There is a view that Acorn did not make any pressure lamps by themselves and they sold other maker's lamps.
Indeed this Acorn lantern is almost identical to Nulite Model 18
( please see the 3rd image, the left one is Acorn and the right is Nulite ).
However the shape & height of Acorn's fount is a bit different
from Nulite's one and
as you can see the 4th image, Acorn has an embossed mark at the
bottom of its fount.
Therefore it was possibly made by Acorn themselves.
This twin mantled gasoline lantern was made by Nagel-Chase Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
I've not confirmed the model nunber yet.
It has a white enameled ventilator and a nickel plated steel fount.
Unfortunately its burner parts are missing and it has two stress cracks in the side of its fount so that it cannot hold enough pressure to ignite.
This single mantle lantern is an Aladdin Model PL1 made by The Mantle Lamp Company of America, Chicago, IL. USA ( later became Aladdin Industries, Nashville, TN., same company, same ornership ) from late 1930s to mid 1940s. It has an all-brass made tank painted with black. It was made as a dual fuel (kerosene and gasoline) lantern and has an adjustable air intake to enable the burner to work with the same efficiency. Seems to be a prototype for US military lantern's burner.
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