logo image Gas Pressure Lanterns, Lamps, Stoves, and Irons

Several important inventions around 1900 led to changes in fixed and portable lighting and heating. These inventions included vaporizing gasoline/kerosene under pressure and a mantle against which the pressurized gas would burn producing a bright white light. In North America many of the early companies that manufactured these new appliances were located in Chicago, Illinois. Competition among manufacturers may have led to the early demise of a number of these companies. The Coleman Company of Wichita, Kansas, emerged as the leader over the next several decades in North America. By the mid-1980's the Coleman Company was the sole major manufacturer of gasoline lanterns in the US.

 

In the early 1950's propane fuel in small portable cylinders led to the development of propane lanterns
as an alternative to the gasoline/kerosene fueled lantern.

 

Outside of the US, the fuel of choice has been kerosene (paraffin) for most of these appliances. A few US models use kerosene.

 

This website is an image collection of models of gas pressure lanterns, lamps, stoves, irons, and heaters.
To date this website includes contributions of 1454 images from 167 collections in 15 countries.

All lanterns, lamps, etc. in the collections of others are so identified.

To all these collectors: thank you for sharing treasures from your collections.

Special thanks to Neil McRae for his identifications and discussions of many of the appliances displayed on these pages.

 

Please do not ask for the value of a lamp or other gas pressure item.
The best place I know to get a value is completed auctions on eBay.

As some items are less common your search may take some time.

 

The latest additions on these pages are in red.

 

The photo logo was taken by E.C. Marsh in southern Ohio in the late 1950's using the light of his Coleman 200A lantern.

 

American Gas Machine lanterns - early models updated July 24, '09
Main updated Nov. 19, '09
AGM lanterns - models beginning with the mid-1930's updated Dec. 11, '08
American Gas Machine lamps updated Nov. 24, '08
AGM, King Seeley, & Thermos lanterns - later models updated Nov. 19, '09
Coleman lamps before mid-1920's updated Feb. 28, '09
Coleman lanterns pre-1931 updated Oct. 21, '09
Coleman lamps after mid 1920's updated Nov. 19, '09
Coleman lanterns 1931 - 1945 updated Oct. 23, '09
Coleman hollow wire lighting updated Nov. 12, '08
Coleman lanterns 1946 - 1960 updated Sep. 1, '09
Coleman stoves pre-1945 updated Dec. 11, '08
 Coleman lanterns 1961 - 1980 updated Oct. 31, '09
Coleman stoves post-1945 updated Nov. 19, '09
 Coleman lanterns 1981 - present updated Oct. 21, '09
Custom lighting updated Nov. 5, '09
Heater etc. manufacturers A - K updated Mar. 4, '09
Hollow wire lighting updated Sept. 22, '09
Heater etc. manufacturers L - Z updated Nov. 29, '07
International lamp manufacturers A - F updated Nov. 11, '09
International lantern manufacturers A - E updated Nov. 5, '09
International lamp manufacturers G - Z updated May 19, '08
 International lantern manufacturers F - M updated Oct. 27, '09
Irons updated Dec. 16, '08
 International lantern manufacturers N - S updated Oct. 25, '09
Links updated Oct. 22, '09
 International lantern manufacturers T - Z updated Oct. 2, '09
Pumps updated Nov. 18, '08
Propane lantern & stove manufacturers A - B updated Feb. 22, '08
 Stove manufacturers A - D updated Nov. 4, '09
Propane lantern & stove manufacturers C updated Sept. 15, '09
Stove manufacturers E - O updated Sept. 7, '09
Propane lantern & stove manufacturers D - M updated Sept. 15, '09
Stove manufacturers P - Z updated Sept. 12, '09
Propane lantern & stove manufacturers N - Z updated Sept. 15, '09
Swedish lamps updated Nov. 5, '09
Tilley lanterns updated July 14, '08
Tilley household lamps pre-1945 updated May 12, '09
US lantern manufacturers A - G updated Sept. 28, '09
Tilley household lamps post-1945 updated June 6, '08
US lantern manufacturers H - M updated Sept. 28, '09
Tilley industrial lamps & lanterns updated Apr. 25, '09
US lantern manufacturers N - P updated Sept. 19, '09
US lamp manufacturers A - B updated Aug. 14, '09
US lantern manufacturers Q - Z updated June 2, '09
US lamp manufacturers C - M updated Feb. 25, '09
Wrench & other lamp tool manufacturers A - M updated Dec. 16, '08
US lamp manufacturers N - R updated Nov. 19, '09
Wrench & other lamp tool manufacturers N - Z updated Dec. 16, '08
US lamp manufacturers S - Z updated Apr. 7, '09

 

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© 2000-2009 Terry Marsh
 tgmarsh@noctrl.edu