Model 84 by the Akron Lamp Co.

is a torch lighting model

that appears in their 1916 catalog.

The tip cleaner door is pointed at the bottom

(to the left of the air tube).

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.

Akron Model 140-BG (left), in Kelly Williams' collection, has an Instant-Glo generator and tip cleaner.
Akron also made a similar lamp for Montgomery Ward (center and right), in John Anderson's collection,
but without a built-in pump and Instant-Glo lighting.
The lamp founts and handles were finished in "statue bronze" paint
(close-up on the right) by Akron (Neil McRae).
These lamps are seen here with Akron Cremax shades.

In an early 1930's version, before the Instant Glo patent was approved,
Akron made this Model 140-B lamp with an earlier round handle
(not hexagonal as above) and finished it in nickel rather than painted.
This 140-B version came with a Cremax shade as above;
a 140-A version came with a parchment shade.

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.