logo image American Gas Machine lanterns - models beginning with the mid-1930's


AGM Models 3608 (left), 3614 (center), and 3618 (right)

are one (left) and two mantle models (center and right).

These are instant lighting models that date to 1936.

The globes on the left and center are labeled "MacBeth Thermo Made in USA."

The globe cage on the left has been repainted and the fount on the right was re-plated.

The lantern on the right is in Loren Abernathy's collection.


This is a pair of art deco styled AGM lanterns,

Model 3708 on the left, single mantled, and Model 3718 on the right, double mantled.

These 1937 lanterns burn either gasoline or kerosene.

The Model 3708 is in Craig Seabrook's collection.

The Model 3718 is in Darcy Vantiger's collection; photo by Dwayne Hanson.

Note that there is no top nut.

The top part of the ventilator unscrews to release the rest of the ventilator.


Model 3705 is a steel fount lantern

that burns kerosene or white gas.

The only accommodation for burning kerosene is an alcohol cup.

The valve stem is ~8o tilted down from horizontal,

a unique feature to this model,

presumably to aid the flow of air into the intake tube.


AGM's Sun Flame Model 2570 is often found with stress cracks in the brass fount.

This one (left) is polished to brass with only a little of the original maroon paint left.

The burner (center) lacks a screen in the 8 mm diameter burner cap

resulting in "backfires" when flames enter the burner chamber

under certain lighting conditions.

The top of the generator screws into the lower air tube, an unusual feature.

Mounted on a comparable fount from a Sears 7426 (= AGM 3006) the lantern still runs (right).


Above are three versions of AGM's Model 2572, a lantern model that probably dates to the 1940's.

The Sun Flame version (left) has the familiar maroon ventilator..

This all original lantern is in Fred Kuntz's collection.

The green version (center) is not stamped U.S. on the fount bottom as are other AGM lanterns from this period..

The maroon version (right), in Bob Meyer's collection, includes the original McKee Glasbake marked globe;

the logo is at the bottom just to the left of the frame vertical bar.


On the left is AGM's Model 3006 which is very similar to

Coleman's Model 243A on the right.

The 243A was made with a knob that locates the ventilator

while the handle attaches it to the rest of the lantern (seen here)

and with a screw-on ventilator nut.

These two lanterns are in Neil McRae's collection.


Matthew Reid restored his Model 3016 lantern (left),

including a correct AGM mantle.

The 3016 with the nickel plated fount (right)

is in Bob Meyer's collection and has an original Ready Lite globe.


This is AGM's model 3020 lantern

which burns kerosene.

All original, this Sun Flame lantern is in Fred Kuntz's collection.


AGM Model 3025 has a polished ventilator

and several parts in the pump that are aluminum.

It is an instant light model with the cleaner tip built into the fuel valve.

Parts for this model appear in a 1956 catalog.

The lantern on the left is in Craig Seabrook's collection.


Comparable to Coleman's Model 236, these AGM Sun Flame Model 3026 lanterns

have a large globe with a single burner.

The one on the left, in Neil McRae's collection, has a Sun Flame globe,

small filler opening, maroon painted fount, and no stamping on the fount base.

The one on the right has a plain globe,

large filler opening, green painted fount and is stamped

with AGM name and location on the bottom along with U.S.

This latter lantern may have been a military version.


The Model 3470 kerosene lantern was made as a

pre military specification version (left) and civilian version (3470-C, right).

The 3470 is stamped US in the base and has a wrench

held in with the frame nut inside the globe support.

Neil McRae says these lanterns, which are in his collection,

probably produce 500 cp.


Model 3927 is another lantern produced for the military.

This one is unusual in having a Coleman type tip cleaner assembly.

The repainted fount is steel as are many other parts

suggesting that it was made during World War II.

It was found at a boot sale in southern England in the mid 1990's.

This two burner white gas model is probably rated at 300 cp.

 

American Gas Machine lanterns - early models updated July 24, '09
Main updated Nov. 5, '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 Sept. 26, '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 Sept. 26, '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 Oct. 5, '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. 5, '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 Sept. 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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