Coleman
lamps after mid-1920's
This Model BQ Bracket Lamp
is shown with the #307 white ribbed shade.
This lamp is in Dwayne
Hanson's collection.
It was made in the late
teens to early 30's.
This lamp is not marked.

Coleman made the Model
117 lamp in the late 1920's
This lamp has the slant
burner with Q77 generator
and takes a separate pump.
It has the #443 Kremelite
shade (left) and #444 Peacock shade (right).
This lamp is in Dean DeGroff's
collection.
Coleman in Canada made
this Model 118
with the slant generator
in Oct. 1928.
This lamp, in George Rocen's
collection,
has the #324 shade and
#903 bug screen.
The paint, not used in
the US,
is a dark brown Colac finish
with gold accents
on the top and bottom of
the fount and handle


Models F-102 (left), F-104
(center), and F-105 (right) table lamps
were made by Coleman for
their Sunshine Products Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Note the carburetor valve
in the F-104 & F-105; these lamps are instant lighting.
The F-102 & F-104,
in Neil McRae's collection, feature the same shade,
while the "corrugated"
shade on the F-105 is the only difference besides the finish (bronze vs.
brass)
between these latter two
models; both of these lamps are stamped CQ and May, 1932.
These two shades were the
only ones offered by Sunshine Products as was true of the earlier Sunshine
Safety Lamp Co.
.
A Model 117 that lacks
the Green Colac finish
but is complete with a
T-88 generator
and #318 shade.
Fil Graff had this lamp
running well for an hour
before he took this picture.
This Canadian Coleman is
the Silver Duchess.
It was originally sold
with a parchment shade.
It was model 118B in the
US but seems to have been model 118 in Canada.
It is also similar to Model
154, shown in a 1935 Canada parts catalogue,
but that model lacks the
integral pump which this one has.
This one, in Neil McRae's
collection, is dated September, 1934.
This Canadian Coleman,
dated July 1939,
differs from the Silver
Dutchess above
by having a brown painted
fount and handle with gold accents.
It came from Australia
and is likely Canadian Model 118B.
This lamp is in Ernie Hiatt's
collection

Canadian Coleman lamps,
Model 153 (left) dated Sept. 1934
and Model 154 (right) dated
Aug. 1938.
These models lack the integral
pump and have the valve at the base of the handle.
The Model 153 lamp is graced
with a #318 Coleman glass shade
and is in George Rocen's
collection.
The Model 154 lamp is in
Craig Seabrook's collection.
While it lacks an original
shade,
this Coleman Model 131
lamp has a reproduction mica chimney
made by Fred Kuntz, who
owns this lamp.
This lamp is dated July,
1934.
Coleman in Toronto, Canada
sold a steel base/vase
to hold 242 series lanterns
and called the combination Duo-Lite.
This 242 lantern/lamp is
dated February, 1935,
and is in Dick Sellers'
collection.
The post in the ventilator
holds a lamp shade (not shown).
Models 134G and P are match
lighting models that were made in 1935.
They require a separate
pump and were economy models.
As seen here this lamp
is Model 134G with the Pyrex globe;
134P had an outer parchment
shade.
Both 134G and P came in
the Silvertone finish.
This lamp is dated June
'35.
A CQ stamped lamp on the
bottom,
the decal on the side of
this Canadian lamp identifies it as Kerosene Mantle Lamp.
This lamp, in Bernie Rousseau's
collection, is date stamped May 1937.
Neil McRae has determined
that this is Model 169K
based on the listings in
a Canadian Coleman Catalog from 1936.
Compare to the Labeled
169K below.

Model 141A (left) dated
June, 1937, & 141 Junior (right) dated March, 1939,
These models are two of
several made in Canada in the 1930's
that had a nickel plated
brass fount.
The lamp on the right is
in George Rocen's collection.
Coleman in Canada made
this Model 128C, named the "Princess."
This coppertone model was
quick-lighting and required an external pump.
It would run on either
kerosene (as shown here with the alcohol cup) or white gas.
This lamp, dated April,
1938, is in George Rocen's collection.
No 355 Pyrex globe and
finial are on this lamp
but not the outer parchment
shade.
This is the Model 143 table
lamp with a parchment shade.
This lamp is in Dwayne
Hanson's collection.
The lamp has an inner Pyrex
globe
that allowed for the use
of a Coleman "Sheer-Lite" shade.
This shade is the Poinsettia
pattern.
It was manufactured in
1938-41.
Model 151 was made in 1938-42
and was a three mantle, 450cp model.
Version 151G, seen here
from Ernie Hiatt's collection,
had the Spring Green ceramic
vase and a parchment shade (missing).
The undated fount is "made
of Everdur" and is "Guaranteed for life
against defects and corrosion."
per a label on the bottom.
The image was taken by
Neil McRae.
Coleman's Model 138B is
a two-burner,
kerosene-fueled lamp that
was made in the later 1930's.
This one, with an undated
fount,
is in Verne Sullivan's
collection.
It lacks the parchment
shade but
has the finial and inner
Pyrex globe.
Coleman in Toronto, Canada
made this kerosene burning chandelier lamp,
Model 103K, in September,
1939.
Each burner uses an R55
generator.
The original parchment
shades were no longer with the lamp
when Neil McRae got it,
so he added reproduction 321 shades from Craig Seabrook.
Coleman wall lamp Model
859
operated on dry or liquid
butane fuel.
As on other models of the
period,
the 355 glass globe protected
an outer parchment shade.
This model dates to c.
1939
and is in Jim and Jan Nichols'
collection.

Instant-Lite Model 132A
was manufactured from 1935-49.
The coppertone version
(left) is date stamped Aug. 1937.
It has the 355 globe but
lacks the parchment shade.
The ivory with gold accent
version (right), in John Carriere's collection,
is date stamped Nov. 1940.
The parchment shade is
a replacement;
it is protected within
by the 355 Coleman globe.
Model 169K requires a separate
pump
and had a parchment shade
with an inner globe.
This Canadian model, dated
Nov 1941, was a large fount alternative
to the 168K below; both
use kerosene.
Both of these models have
a mixing tube that contains an inner metal sleeve (lower image),
presumably to help in the
use of kerosene as a fuel.


Coleman of Canada made
these Model 168K lamps, named the "Regal"
in Nov. 1938 (left), Dec.
1942
(center), & May 1946 (right);
this kerosene model requires
an external pump.
The lamp on the left, in
George Rocen's collection, is an earlier version painted black with gold
accents.
The fount on the lamp in
the center is steel due to a shortage of brass during WWII.
The mica globe and parchment
shade on the lamp (right) appear to be original.

Coleman's Model 152 was
the last lamp model made in Wichita.
These lamps are both dated
Jan. 1947, early in the production of this model.
The lamp on the left, in
Bill Tanner's collection, came with a 355 globe and parchment shade.
This model ran on white
gas or kerosene and is running here on kerosene.
The lamp on the right,
in Dorothy Nietfeldt's collection, is seen with the original parchment
shade.
$11.95 is the price in
marking pencil on the box for this lamp.
Coleman in Toronto made
this Model 157 lamp
which is also date stamped
Jan. 1947 as the above Wichita Model 152s.
Bob Meyer outfitted his
lamp with a fluted parchment Empress shade
that is also from this
period.
This Coleman Canada Model
159X is date stamped Dec. 1955.
The X designation in the
model number is for the red painted brass restrictor
that is screwed on the
base of the air tube.
This improves the lamp's
ability to burn different kinds of kerosene,
according to Canadian collector,
George Rocen.
Note that this lamp, in
Ed Dennis's collection, uses an R 55 generator.