The gas or kerosene lighting on this page are custom made,
primarily from pressure lamps and/or lantern parts by the collector.
Creativity is evident in these pressure lights!
Here is one solution to the problem of what to do with those old parts!

Del Caley created "Francina" from an Akron lamp fount
with a 200A valve under a 242 burner and globe cage.
The light includes a Quick-Lite shade holder, an amber 200A globe,
an igniter, modern red glass shade,
and an old sink faucet handle adapted to the hub of the 200A wheel.
Del modified the tailpiece from the fount to complete the creation.

George Rocen started with a fluted Quick-Lite lamp fount
manufactured in Toronto, Canada in Sept. '36, stripped to brass and polished.
The handle is repainted to the original lamp.
Using two identical Coleman burner assemblies from the 30's,
George joined them with Coleman fittings to the fuel tube
and created a strap and shade hanger at the top to hold the modern shade.
Two R55 generators and alcohol cups complete the light.

Jeff Johnson made his "Vikingson Special" from a polished to brass
Coleman (Wichita) CQ fount and handle
and the upper portions of a Canadian Coleman 237 lantern.
He found a brass adapter on another old lamp
to join the lamp and lantern portions to one another..

Will Nelle used a fount and handle from a Coleman 152 table lamp,
repainted the fount red and added a reproduction Coleman logo on the side,
and combined these with the upper parts from a Coleman 200A lantern
to create his outdoor table lamp.
He wanted a taller light to illuminate the whole table outdoors.

An interesting combination of two appliances
is Bruce Kuda's "Yankee Ingenuity."
The fount is a blow torch,
and the lantern top is from an American Gas Machine Co. Inc.
Model 100 or possibly 3608 lantern.
This light is bright, has good balance, and can be carried for long periods.

Using the smaller copper fount from an early 1930's Tilley "Jacobean" ML96,
Jeff Johnson made a reproduction oak base
similar to one that has only been seen
as a figure in Tilley literature in 1940.
The champagne glass shade dates to the 1940's.

Jeff Johnson made this lantern from parts from
Optimus, Hasag, and Anchor lanterns
and fitted these parts to a Tilley R1 fount.

Rob Roberts calls this his Extremely Limited Edition Sears Lantern.
The lantern is the excellent work of Cheyenne Cobb for Rob
and is a modified Coleman for Sears,
the primary difference being the nickel plated fount.

Another light in Rob Robert's collection,
Rob made his "Frankenstein Profane" light
to "keep good parts from going to waste."
This Sears-Coleman-Paulin or 5114/228 light
graces his patio by the grill.

A vase lamp sold by Montgomery Ward as Model 450F418,
and manufactured by the Akron Lamp & Mfg. Co.,
had a temporary residence in this coffee can
while Neil McRae was restoring the original vase that came with this lamp.
He put sand around the fount in the coffee can for stability
and was able to run the lamp - a genuine? coffee table lamp - as seen here.

Ludwig Gebauer built this alcohol lamp using the principles of the Tito Landi lamps.
As the fount is a marmalade jar, Ludwig has named this lamp Marme-Landi.
While it is not a true pressure light, the mixing tube above the air intake hole (middle image)
must be constructed to provide just enough heat
to allow the air and alcohol mix to gasify sufficiently.
Ludwig made the mantle (right) himself.

Erik Leger mounted this smaller Mikro-Landi burner from Ludwig Gebauer
 in a paint can which he enclosed in a Swiss Army candle lantern casing.
Erik also raised the top of the casing to about 1 cm for heat removal.
The light produces about 15 HK or about 14 CP
and uses 3035 ml of alcohol/hour.

The base of this lamp is a Kitson Excelite, which Jeff Johnson,
the owner of this lamp, can date by an ad to 1923.
The fount is pressurized with a bicycle pump.
Jeff used a brass adapter above the handle
to connect the base to a Tilley table lamp.
Henry Plews has given this lamp the name "Kittey."

As found in an antique mall in Ohio,
this Coleman "200A" lantern is a curious combination:
the ventilator is likely from an early 1980's 200A;
the collar is a reproduction made of galvanized steel;
and the fount, dated May 1987, was likely sold by Coleman
as a replacement 200A fount.
The red is the same as used on some 286 and 288 lanterns of that period.

Jeff Johnson calls this floor lamp his Long Tall Tilley.
He refinished the base and stem of an electric oak lamp
and added lead weight to the underside of the base for added stability.
Jeff had the Tilley fount cradle and base made
so that it screws into the electric adapter at the top of the stem.
The lamp is a WWII vintage Tilley ML93 fitted with a white opal gas globe.

Alex Simins salvaged the 249 Coleman that forms the top half of this lantern
but the fount was shot on this kerosene model.
As he wanted a lantern that he could run for several hours every night,
he sacrificed a mint condition 220H for the fount
and is now able to run the lantern for 10 hours in the winter without a refill.
The bail is from a 335 lantern.

Much rarer than a Poultry Lantern,
this Bird House Lantern is the creation of Mike Merz,
who used parts from Coleman lantern models 220E and 220F.
PVC caps painted black cover the openings to the
fount which he repainted with a hammered silver paint.

John Morris created this light by combining
a 200A Coleman lantern (top)
with a Canadian Coleman 157 lamp in the midsection
(under the exhaust pipe handle)
and a 1945 Coleman mil spec lantern (polished brass) for the base.

Steve Winikates thinks this lantern
may have been a prototype for a 1958 Edition
Coleman "Christmas" lantern
but, because of flammability issues that couldn't be overcome,
the lantern never went into production.

A difficult to solve fount problem on a Bialaddin T10
led to a new "marriage" with a Tilley TL106
now known as "Billey."
Billey is owned by friends of Linda Massey,
Eric Baillie and Jean Gillies,
all of whom worked on the lamp.

This larger copper Tilley ML93 fount from the mid to late 1930's
is now safely nested in an oak Veritas woodblock that was used for a wick lamp.
Jeff Johnson completed the new lamp with a Pyrex glass shade
from a gas light.

Joe Pagan created this custom series of Coleman 502s and a 501 stove (bottom, second from right)
in over a year's time using stoves that were in poor condition.
Randall Adams made most of the Coleman labels that Joe applied after they got their new paint jobs
to match several models of Coleman lanterns, especially Model 200A.
Upper, l-r: Gold Bond 502-704(a friend's designation), Xmas 502, Blackband 502 & Sears 72502 (Joe's designation; note the Sears knob).
Lower, l-r: burgundy 502, factory green 502, red 502, 243-501 and 275-502.

Randall Adams combined the brightness of a new-in-box Coleman NorthStar
with the colors (read "flair") of an early 1950's "black band" 200A.
Off with the old paint and decals
and on with Banner Red paint, black paint, and a period correct fount decal.
Future plans call for a re-enameled red ventilator.

This Coleman 237 and another just like it came from an antique mall outside of Clyde, Ohio.
At first I thought the ventilator was enameled yellow above and white beneath
and the white enamel reflector added for railroad use.
More recently I learned that there is a enameling factory in Clyde
and now believe they were done by an employee at the factory for personal use.

John Powers found this Tilley X246 lantern base

to which a previous owner had substituted a Tilley heater element

and fabricated a sheet metal box with 3 side layers

to direct the heat out of the front and top of the unit.

There may have been a grill fastened across the front at one time.

It runs well; the insulated portions barely get warm to the touch.

Frederik Tivemark made his "Pontiac" lantern

from a 1952 mil-spec lantern with quadrant globe

but with a 1944 Akron mil-spec collar

and an AGM ventilator.

Frederik has restored a '55 Pontiac in his native Sweden.

Frederik Tivemark combined the upper parts of a Coleman 200A

including modifying the frame by removing the air tube and burner

to accomodate a Primus 991 fount and burner system

with a collar from an Optimus 930

which results in a Prieman, or is it a Colemus?, lantern.

The collar on this lantern is stamped 228E

but Coleman had switched to the "ribbed" collar

several months before the April 1963 date on the fount.

It is further unusual in having the fount painted red and having a red valve wheel.

Fred Kuntz got this lantern in the Wichita, Kansas, area

so perhaps it was specially made at the Coleman factory.