Links
The International Guild
of Lamp Researchers has a website
from which you can ask
questions about lanterns and lamps
and search a database for
US lighting patents.
The International Coleman
Collectors Club has a website
with members information
and pages, technical information, convention news, etc.
If you collect Coleman,
this organization is a must!
An excellent place for learning
more
about how pressure lanterns
and lamps work
is the eGroups: coleman
website.
You will have to sign up
as a member of the group to access the site.
Read the old messages where
there is a store of information
Ask a question and get
it answered.
English Custom Polishing
has a website
that includes a lot of
excellent advice and products for metal restoration
- a necessary part
of owning a lantern/lamp collection.
You can also send them
items for restoration/polishing.

Fred
Kuntz (or phone 440-352-9630) produces reproduction mica globes
(top row, l-r: #'s 351,
327, LQ327 and 440)
and glass globes
(bottom row, l-r: #'s 242
and 330 - first style).
Fred also has reproductions
of a variety of Coleman decals.
Craig
Seabrook has reproduction glass globes
(middle row, l-r: #'s 317,
321, and 316)
and hardwood wall shelves
for lanterns.
Anders and Per-Henrik Willman
have a nice website
of their lantern
and lamp collection
and links to a number of
other lantern-related sites.
Jeff Glass has a blow
torch website
that covers use, functional
operation, repair, troubleshooting
and failure mode analysis
of gasoline blow torches.
This site also includes
a number of very nice images of a variety of models.
Shinzo Kono maintains a
growing website
that includes images of
gas
pressure lamps and lanterns
that he has collected/restored,
as well as images from
collectors all over the world,
and an excellent guide
to restoration.
John Moncrieff Limited
has a website
that includes reproductions
of Tilley top hat shades,
Tilley and Vapalux globes
and parts, and Solar lanterns for sale.
Old
Town Coleman Center
The Old Town Coleman Center
has a website
that includes images of
many Coleman products
and lots of help with parts,
lanterns for sale, etc.
Hans Thornblad has a website,
Blow Lamps Unlimited,
that features blow lamps
(blow torches), soldering irons,
furnaces, and similar heating
apparatus.
Herman Mulder has a homepage
that includes his collection
of lamps and stoves.
The page is linked to the
English version but also has a Dutch version.
Bairstow
Brothers, Halifax, UK, sell two excellent lantern models,
the Vapalux M1B and the
M320.
The Classic Camp Stoves
website
has a treasure house of
information -
catalogues, instruction
sheets,
Primus product date codes,
patents,
and stove company histories.
Alan Moore's Pressure Lamps
Unlimited website
has a storehouse of useful
and interesting information
including images of lamps
and lanterns from collectors all over the world,
histories of pressure lighting
and manufacturers,
and sources of spare parts
and repairs.
Albert White has a comprehensive
website
on the Handi Brand of stoves,
lanterns, and irons
that were manufactured
in Australia.
Rob & Rose Roberts have
a website
of their collection of
lanterns
with links to other sites.
Lancaster Lanterns is an
Amish company that is not on the internet.
They be reached at 5465
White Oak Rd., Paradise, PA 17562
or by calling their answering
service (10-10:30 ET) at 610.593.2300.
Erik Leger has a website
in German that focuses on Continental Licht products
but also has other European
gas pressure appliances
and a link to the Stuga-Cabana
Petromax Forum hosted by Juergen Breidenstein
for questions and answers
on all kinds of pressure lamps in Europe.
You can also find current
gas lighting and stove products for sale on the Stuga-Cabana website.
Wim van der Velden has
a website
in Dutch, English, and
German of European lamps and lanterns in his collection
and pages on the history
and development of gas lighting, particularly the Petromax brand.
Ernie Hiatt sells parts
for Coleman and for U.S. military stoves and lanterns.
He also does repair work
on Coleman models.
Ernie is not on the internet
but can be reached at 574.223.3232 (phone) or 574.223.2842 (Fax).
Ernie also has an extensive
Coleman Museum located north of Rochester, Indiana.
Erwin Schaefer in Germany
has a website
that includes his lantern
collecting hobby.
His collection includes
both European and North American
lantern and lamp models.
Another interesting German
website
is Torsten Scherning's.
His site includes gas pressure
lighting and heating appliances.
Bob Hitchcock has a website
listing many Coleman parts for sale
including many older items.
Randall Adams is making
reproduction decals and labels
for gas pressure appliances.
See his website
for more details.
The Be-Back-Later website
includes a Forum
that attracts collectors
from around the world
and include discussions
of pressure lighting.
Yoshihiro Sugimoto's website
is aimed at Japanese collectors
But has excellent images
and details on Coleman pressure appliances.
Henk Kloosterman has a website
of wick lanterns (stormlamps),
especially those from Europe.
The website is in Dutch
but is easily navigated.