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"The Canton" is an arc
lamp that was made by the
Canton Inc. Light Co.,
Canton, Ohio.
The hanger leaning against
the right side of the fount
appears to be an original
part of the lamp.
This lamp is in Verne Sullivan's
collection.

The brass badge on this
lamp identifies it as the Diamond Reading Lamp
made by the Diamond Light
Co., Kansas City, Missouri.
The company was in business
from 1909 - 1913
based on our examination
of the city directories of that period.
This torch lighting lamp
is in Jon Schedler's collection.

The Doud Lighting Co.,
Chicago, Illinois,
manufactured these lamps.
The two mantle torch lighting
Model 1 (left) ran well for Neil McRae,
whose collection these
are in.
The one mantle match lighting
generator lamp (right)
is an unknown model that
has the manufacturer's stamp.

Unlike others of this model,
this Model No. 22 lamp
is stamped Economy Lamp
Co. Kansas City (Missouri) on the heat deflector.
The shade appears to be
original to the lamp
based on an advertisement
for this model dated Nov. 1, 1919.
It is a torch lit gasoline
model
with a vertically mounted
tip cleaner and horizontal air intake.

This lamp is an unknown
model by Economy Lamp Co.
As the Economy models below,
it will take a Coleman generator,
in this case an R55.
Like the Economy lamp above,
it has an horizontal air tube,
but like the lamp below
right, it has the same shade holder and
flat steel eye bolt to
hold the shade hanger.


The Economy Lamp Company
also made Model 401 (left), which has a nickel plated brass fount,
and Models 415 (center)
and 417 (right), which have mahogany & green painted brass founts respectively.
The generators on these
models are compatible with Coleman.
The lamp on the right has
a hanging rod, only the bottom of which can be seen in the image,
and a flat steel eye bolt
to hold the shade hanger.
The lamp in the center
is in Neil McRae's collection.

The Foote Mfg. Co., Dayton,
Ohio, made this unmarked lamp
during their short period
of existence (1908-17).
I was able to run this
kerosene lamp courtesy of John Anderson
who kindly donated his
valve stem.
The lamp has a solid air
screw and also requires an air pump
with a flexible hose and
threaded tip.

This Model D Foote lamp
is so identified
on an original paper label
glued to the bottom of the fount.
The lamp, in Warren Wright's
collection,
has an "L" shaped valve
mounted in the fount
to shut off and control
the flow of kerosene or white gas to the burner.
Unlike the lamp above,
the filler cap on this lamp does have an air screw.
This small torch lighting,
twin mantle table lamp was made by
the Gloria Light Co., Chicago,
IL,
and sold by the Best Light
Co., Canton, OH.
It was probably made between
1910-1925.
The steel base of the fount
of this lamp has rusted through.
This lamp is in Neil McRae's
collection
The Gloria Light Co. also
made this lamp.
This unidentified model
in Craig Seabrook's collection is not marked;
Neil McRae has designated
it Model "B" based on the burner,
until such time as more
catalogs appear to give it a more definitive identification.
Neil suspects that the
turban fount on this lamp
and the Knight
Light lamp below were made by Coleman.
This torch-lit lamp was
probably made by the Gloria Light Co.
It was sold by Incandescent
Light & Supply as their Model 80
and by Knight Light Co
as Model KK.
There are no markings on
the lamp.
Neil McRae was successful
in running this kerosene lamp (right).
This lamp, in Matt
Reid's collection,
was almost certainly made
by the Gloria Light Company for the
Incandescent Light &
Supply Co, per Neil McRae.
The lamp came from an estate
that had two lamps from the same source,
the other being from Incandescent
Light & Supply Co.
We believe this torch lighting,
gasoline lamp was sold by the Home Mfg. Co., Des Moines, Iowa.
This two-mantled, 300 cp
lamp, in Neil McRae's collection,
is easily recognized by
the turned-down valve stem and wheel.
The shade and shade holder
are not original to this lamp.
To date we have been unable
to match any of its construction with known lamp manufacturers
If you have one of these
unique lamps, please contact me.

Imperial Brass Co. of Chicago
made this table lamp
around 1915-1920.
Designed as a kerosene
burner,
Neil McRae has it running
here on white gas (left).
The lamp has a generator
heater (right)
to assure that fuel reaching
the mantle
is vaporized well enough
to burn properly.
Kero Gas Lamp #3514 (label
on fount base) was made by
The Incandescent Light
& Stove Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
This lamp was probably
a torch-lit lamp
before it was converted
to "quick lite" with a Coleman burner.
The shade is number 318
by Coleman.


Justrite Mfg. Co. of Chicago
also made table lamps.
These two models have the
characteristic
Justrite burners and generators.
Neil McRae has restored
the lamp on the left and center to operating condition
by replacing the gas tip
in the Justrite generator.
His model takes an external
pump.
The lamp on the right is
in Jerry Engbring's collection;
it has a built-in pump
and air intake chamber.


Made by A.G. Kaufman, New
York, NY, these 335 cp kerosene "Senior" table lamps
varied primarily in handle
and fount ornamentation,
based on information collected
by Neil McRae.
Model 401 - Ionic (left)
is in Craig Seabrook's collection,
Model 402 - Colonial (center)
is in Kenny Connolly's collection,
and Model 403 - Empire
(right) is in Neil McRae's collection.

The 335cp kerosene "Junior"
model lamps are Kaufman's 604 (left)
& 605B (right) Greek
or Roman Torch.
They are 4" shorter than
the lamps above with a smaller, 1 pint fount (Neil McRae).
Kenny Connolly repainted
the steel fount on his lamp on the left
which has an ornate slip-on
cast iron base ring.
The original Verde green
finish is on the fount and handle of the lamp on the right,
which is in Craig Seabrook's
collection.
The A. G. Kaufman Manufacturing
Co.
also made this bracket
lamp.
The model number is unknown
but the burner was used
on at least a couple of table lamp models,
according to Neil McRae,
whose collection this is in.
This lamp is missing the
generator; the air intake is a square, horizontal tube.

The Knight Light Co., Chicago,
made this Sunray lamp which
they rated at 300 cp.
The burner and generator
(right image) appear to have been made
by the Gloria
Light Co., another Chicago company.
This lamp, with the original
shade, is in Dwayne Hanson's collection.
An advertisement dated
1922 features this lamp.
This lamp is badged Knight
Light Co. but is also stamped with a patent date
that was awarded to Robert
Doran, President of the Gloria Light Co., Chicago.
Neil McRae, whose collection
this is in, has designated it as Model "B"
as the Gloria
lamp above only the generator on this one is a later design.
Neil dates these lamps
to 1914-20.
Neil fitted the lamp with
a Humphrey's globe.
The lower grayscale image
shows that the burner has a upward diversion
with a "mantle cap" to
continuously heat the generator.


Leacock Coleman, Ronks,
Pennsylvania, made the Model 100 (left), 107ss (center) table lamps, and
Model W107ss wall lamp (right)
which are based on the
1920's Coleman Quick Lite CQ and BQ models and with Coleman style burners
(Neil McRae).
Model 100 has a steel fount,
handle, and shade holder that Dan Leeds had to repaint as the original
gold paint.
Model 107ss features a
stainless steel fount and handle.
Model W107ss, in Bob Meyer's
collection, also has the stainless steel fount and is dated Feb. 2003.
The table lamps have reproduction
Coleman 329 shades; all these lamps take a separate pump and are match
lighting.
Leacock Coleman is an Amish
company whose primary market is Amish.



A.J. Lindemann & Hoverson
Co., Milwaukee, WI,
made these Lind-O-Lite
Model table lamps, Model 330? (left), and 330A (centers & right).
The center image of the
lamp burner is of a lamp in Neil McRae's collection
There is a carburetor valve
in the fount of the 330A, an AGM creation
that was also used by Prentiss
Wabers and occasionally Coleman.
Model 330A lamp, with two
Lind-O-Lite shades, is in Jon Schedler's collection.
This Lind-O-Lite lamp is
unusual because it is a one mantle model.
It appears to be earlier
than the above model but is instant-lighting, I believe.
The fount is steel with
a black crackle finish; the generator is a Coleman Q77.
This lamp, in Jerry Engbring's
collection, is missing the shade holder.