The Coleman Quick-Lite 327 was sold from 1920 to 1924 from the Wichita (USA) plant with no date stamp. This wall lantern is in Mel Taylor’s collection. Other features including the rim tabbed unmarked ventilator and a soldered hex bolt in the fount bottom suggest they were using these parts from old inventory. The valve wheel stamping and burner details are consistent with this lamp being made in 1924-25. In that period Coleman was still using 7″ diameter founts, as on this lantern, for bracket models in Coleman literature of the period (Vantiger). The embossed ventilators date it to 1922 or later.Ĭoleman Shipping Records note several hundred BLQ appliances shipped in 1924-25. There is no documented evidence that Coleman made a chandelier with lantern heads, however, this chandelier, in Brad Stephenson’s collection, has no evidence of solder in the lower portions of the fuel valve assemblies where a fuel uptake tube from the fount would have been fastened and there are no bail attachment marks on the frame posts. The lantern on the right lacks its generator and is in Don Colston’s collection. The lantern on the left is in Doug Dwyer’s collection. The mica globes were removed for the images. These lanterns have a separate post to support the burner the air tube, which is curved in these models, opens below the mantles. ![]() This lantern was restored by Steve Retherford for Mike Coon, whose collection this is in.Ĭoleman also made these LZ327 (left) and LZ427 (right) lanterns, known here by their Coleman numbers, for several retailers including Sears and Montgomery Ward. ![]() Only the burner assembly parts were different from Model 316 on this page, from the generator to the burner caps and larger, round air tubes (lower image, left) Model H 416 took larger mantles and was rated at 800 candlepower (Diehl). Coleman made hundreds of Arc lantern Model H 416 from 1922 – 1925 (Strong – Shipping Records).
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