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This lamp is stamped Akron
Gas Lamp Co.
It has the appearance of
a torch lighting model but with a generator.
This Model 92 appears in
a 1919 advertisement for Akron products,
and probably dates to 1919-20
according to Neil McRae.

This Diamond salesman's
kit (left) was owned and used
by Emil Goecks of N. Milwaukee, WI.
A price list inside the
door is dated Feb. 1, 1922.
The Diamond lamp Model
102G with the original shade and mantles was in this kit.
This kit and the
separate lamp and shade to the right are in
Fil Graff's collection.
Akron's Model 105G chandelier
lamp with shades as original
provides light and warmth
in Randall Adams's home
on a winter night.
Randall, who restored the
lamp,
learned that it once hung
in a speakeasy
(a bar that served alcoholic
beverages during Prohibition) in Nevada.

The Akron Lamp Co. also
made a Model 106G bracket lamp.
The same ventilator and
mica globe were used on the Model 103 lantern.
The lamp on the right is
not typical as it lacks the nickel plating
and support pegs for the
fount.
It is also hung by a keyhole
tab on the back, not a ring.
The lamp on the left is
in David Jahn's collection,
while the lamp on the right
is in Craig Seabrook's collection.
Akron's Model 120-BG table
lamp is another twin mantle lamp.
After soldering the brass
stem in the handle section
I was able to run this
lamp.
The Gold Krakel finish
on the font and handle
are complemented by the
Cremax Diamond shade
with two peacocks decals
on the four panels.


Akron made a Utility Lamp,
Model 121G,
seen here with the earlier
"...opal white..." shade (left) in Jerry Engbring's collection,
"...ivory-gold glass shade
of modernistic design." in John Anderson's collection (middle),
and with a green with black
accent painted fount (right).
This lamp is a two burner,
300 cp model.
The shade in the center
image was available for this lamp and Model 125
in an Akron catalog from
mid- 1941.
Model 140-BG has an Instant-Glo
generator
and tip cleaner.
The lamp fount is finished
in gold paint
as was the handle.
The Cremax shade, which
Bob Meyer found separately,
is correct for this model.
This Akron vase lamp in
the Art Deco style
with an Instant-Glo generator
dates to the late 1930's
when it was sold as Model
486B7257 by Montgomery Ward.
It is in Dick Sellers'
collection.
The lamp came with a parchment
shade.


This Diamond brand floor
lamp by the Akron Lamp Co. (left & middle)
is in Craig Seabrook's
collection.
It features the original
parchment shade.
The close-up views (center
& right) reveal the characteristic Akron Instant-Glo generator
and square/diamond valve
knob.
The image on the right
is of the fount and burner of this lamp, running, in Fil Graff's collection.
Montgomery Ward sold this
Model 450F418 Akron pottery lamp
in the 1933 catalog for
$7.45 with a 16" parchment shade.
The metal fount inside
the ceramic pottery
held 1.5 pints of gasoline.
This lamp is in Jerry Engbring's
collection.
The nameplate soldered
on the bottom of this lamp says:
manufactured by Albert
Lea Gas Light Co., Albert Lea, Minnesota,
however, the burner is
the same as those on lighting
made by the Gloria Light
Co., Chicago, Illinois.
This lamp is in Loren Abernathy's
collection;
he believes it predates
the American Gas Machine Model P71.

Two views of an Astley
Parlor lamp
made by the Allen Sparks
Gas Light Co., Lansing, Michigan.
It is a torch lighting
lamp.
The shade on the lamp on
the left fits but is not the correct one.
This lamp is in Neil McRae's
collection.
The lamp on the right is
in Craig Seabrook's collection.
The Best Light Co. of Canton,
OH,
made this table lamp.
This lamp is in Craig Seabrook's
collection.

The Best Light Co. also
made this
Model 300 lamp, circa 1915.
While the finish had deteriorated,
this 300 cp kerosene lamp
was in good running order
as received by Neil McRae.

Two bracket lamps by the
Best Light Co.,
Model 237 indoor lamp (left)
and unknown model outdoor lamp (right),
both lack feet to support
the fount on a flat surface.
The outdoor model has a
Nulite globe cage, ventilator, & burner
which may not be original
to this lamp.
These lamps are in Neil
McRae's collection.
The Brite Lite Company,
which succeeded the Albert Lea Gas Light Company
circa 1914 and lasted until
circa 1920
made this Model 65 lamp,
in Neil McRae's collection.
The company rated this
model at 400 cp;
it is seen running here
with a Coleman 355 lamp globe.

Brite Lite also made this
Model 66 lamp
that appears in Catalog
5, circa 1916, of that company.
The lamp is a gas model
rated at 400cp.
The glass shade on the
lamp (right) is not original to this model..
The lamp on the left is
in Casey Jennings collection.