International lantern manufacturers F - M
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Falk Veritas, a UK company,
made this Veritas Model P9955B lantern.
It is a 300 cp kerosene
burning model.
This model has a tip cleaner
at the top of the generator
and is operated via a linkage
that runs through the base plate (missing here).
This lantern is in Neil
McRae's collection.

Falk also made these Veritas
Models 350 (left) and Superb (right) lanterns,
both seen here working,
a difficult feat as they are temperamental.
The Superb lantern has
a burner that looks similar to Coleman cast brass burner units
but the generator is in
the same style as Tilley and Bialaddin vaporisers.
These lanterns are in Neil
McRae's collection.
Both models were produced
in several finishes.

A company in Badalona,
Spain, made this Focus brand lantern, Model 08.
This lantern, in Bo Ryman's
collection, includes a large handled,
built-in pump and preheater
that probably produces a small flame
(note preheater tube through
the lower half of the mica globe).
The lantern also has an
alcohol preheater cup.

This Handi Kero-Pet lantern,
Model-3 was made
by the Handi Works Pty.
Ltd. in Australia.
It has a nickel plated
brass fount and black porcelain enamel ventilator.
Both the base rest and
frame are steel
while the burner assembly
and air intake tube are brass.
The curved glass globe,
from Scotland, is marked "HANDI PYREX."
This lantern is in Shinzo
Kono's collection.

The Thermidor brand lantern
was manufactured by Samuel Heath & Sons, UK, probably in the 1950's.
The fount, controls, burner
and base are the same
as on this
Veritas bowl fire (radiant heater).
The lantern on the left
belongs to John Mountstevens;
the running Thermidor on
the right is in Neil McRae's collection.
This lantern was also badged
and sold as a Veritas by Falk Veritas (Neil McRae).
The Hipolito, Model H-502
Automatic lantern in the Petromax genre,
was manufactured by Casa
Hipolito SARL in Portugal
This lantern was owned
by a gentleman in Florida who used it for fishing.
It was cleaned and polished
to its original splendor
by Steve at English
Custom Polishing.

Erik Leger got this early
Model 214 AIDA lantern,
manufactured by Hirschhorn
Aktiengesellschaft,
in poor condition but he
was able to get it running as seen in this image.
The burner tip is enlarged
so it uses kerosene rapidly.
The bail is off the lantern
in this image
but it has a mica globe
from the period.
Note the antlered deer
(Hirschhorn in German) logo on the pump handle.

AIDA Model 103 was manufactured
from 1939 to 1950 (Hans P. Waage; cited by Neil McRae).
This model includes a rapid preheater.
The AIDA logo and model information as on the lantern above
is stamped on the other side of the fount.
This lantern is in Juan Caiti's collection.


These AIDA Models 1215 Record (left) and 1233 Record (right)
are in George Burl's collection and date to the early 1960's.
These lanterns are preheated with alcohol only.
Neil McRae notes that Model 1215 is a 500 cp lantern equivalent to Petromax Model 523
while Model 1233 is a 250 cp lantern equivalent to Petromax 821.

AIDA also made Model 1250
Express Record (left), Express (center) & 1500 Express Record (right)
lanterns.
The Aida brand after WWII
was made by Graetz Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH in Germany
along with their Petromax
brand, according to Neil McRae, and only differ in the nameplate.
The Express Records (left
and right) differ from the Express (center) by having a plastic vs. metal
preheater handle.
The two Model 1250s, in
Doron Papo's collection, are 250cp, while Model 1500, in Fil Graff's collection,
is 500cp.

Primus is a brand name
of Aktiebolaget B.A. Hjorth, Sweden.
Their lantern models 981
(left) and 991 (right) are small,
single-mantled, and kerosene
burning.
Model 981 is date stamped
AD which is 1939
while Model 991 is date
stamped AT which is 1954.
Model 981 is in Will Nelle's
collection.
Originally nickel plated,
the Model 991 lantern has been polished to brass.
It is in Neil McRae's collection.
Neil McRae has identified
3 Primus models that were made in WWII
that were converted from
kerosene burners to alcohol burners
due to a shortage of fuels.
This 391 lantern, in Magnus
Thilander's collection, is one of these models.
A 200cp lantern, it is
dated 1940 and has the original model plate
covered by the Model 391
plate.
This Model 1001 Primus
was made in 1931.
Frederik Tivemark restored
it including
a reproduction mica globe,
an option for this model.
The lantern is unusual
in having two air tubes
meet the generator below
the burner.
The mantle is tied above
and below as on a Tilley.


Model 1003 (left image) is a large fount version of Model 1001 above.
This lantern, in Bo Ryman's collection, "...is specially suitable for Poultry Farms, etc.,
as it will burn for 20 hours on one filling of 4 pints of paraffin." (Condrup Cat. No. 347)
For comparison in the right image (l to r) are Models 1080, 1021 (see below), and 1003.
This 1003 lantern is date coded 1932.

This Primus Model 1020
lantern (left) is brass
rather than nickel plated
brass.
It was made in 1931 and
is in Magnus Thilander's collection.
This model is a 300cp kerosene
fueled lantern.
Primus Model 1320 (right),
in Frederik Tivemark's collection,
was made in 1941 using
the Model 1020 but with different generator parts to burn alcohol.

Primus Model 1021 is a larger fount version of Model 1020 above.
This lantern in Bo Ryman's collection, is date stamped 1938.
The fount has a 4 3/8 pint capacity and was advertised
as being able to run for 14 to 15 hours on a single filling,
in "...many places, where it has to be left for several hours without attention."
(Primus Cat. 5457, 1934).
Primus made an acetylene
fueled lantern, Model 1031.
The silver upper chamber
holds water
which is dripped at a controlled
rate (upper left valve)
on calcium carbide crystals
in the lower chamber to produce acetylene.
The flame lacks a mantle
and provides a modest light.
This lantern was repainted
by a previous owner.


Model 1051 is an earlier
model (1930 left and center), 1937 (right) with two mantles & gasoline
fueled.
The torch (center) is kept
in an alcohol supplied fount well
and can be removed to preheat
the generator.
There is a blow torch preheater
on the 1937 version
that produces a gentle
flame only.
These lanterns are in Neil
McRae's collection.
This Primus Model 1060
lantern is a gasoline, not a kerosene model,
and is a copy of the Coleman
236 Major -
note the fuel cap, globe,
and generator tip cleaner lever.
This lantern, dated 1954,
was originally owned
by an employee of Primus
and has never been used.
Primus Model 1080 is a
400cp kerosene lantern
that was available with
an alcohol preheater cup (as seen here)
or a kerosene preheater
torch.
It also came with a mica
globe rather than a glass globe (Neil McRae).
This lantern, in Steve
& Jill Wood's collection, is dated AC=1938.
The nickel plating on the
ventilator was removed during restoration.
Hovic Verk in Norway made
this Primus Model 1082
under license and apparently
did not sell these products outside of Norway,
according to Neil McRae,
the owner of this lantern.
This model burns kerosene,
is preheated with an alcohol cup,
and is rated at 300cp.

Primus made Model 1082S (compare to above) which they rated at 450 cp.
This version, in Juan Caiti's collection,
also burns kerosene and is preheated with an alcohol cup.
This model was made from 1952 to 1954, according to Nils Stephenson,
who also notes that this model was B.A. Hjorth's first attempt
at producing a high output lantern.

These are older (left) and newer (right) versions of Model 102 Standard
lantern
made by Hovic Verk in Norway.
Note differences in the generators, frame base plates, and collars.
While this model superficially
resembles Primus models
it has several unique features
so it is not just rebadged.
These lanterns are in Harald Hogseth's collection.


These 350 cp (left) and 500 cp (right) kerosene fueled lanterns
were made by the Kwong Ming Factory, Peoples Republic of China
and sold under the Light Brand.
The 350 cp lantern has the rapid start preheater
while the 500 cp has the alcohol preheat only.
These lanterns are in George Burl's collection.


Aktiebolaget Lux, Stockholm,
Sweden,
made this single mantle,
gasoline fueled, 250 cp lantern
that had the model or code
name Sirius.
Bo Ryman dates this model
to 1914-20.
Christer Carlsson, whose
collection this is in, has cleaned and run the lantern.
The generator includes
a tip cleaner and preheater cup that can be filled from above.

Translation of the Chinese
on the shade and fount of this lantern
suggests that the lantern
was made in the '30's by a Chinese Co.
for Molese & Co. of
Germany.
Originally the brass lantern
was covered with a protective? black material.
The globe supports have
rusted through and no longer connect to the globe base.
Images by Neil McRae.