US
lamp manufacturers C - M
"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 examinationn
of the city directories of that period.
This toch 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 advertisment
for this model dated Nov. 1, 1919.
It is a torch lit gasoline
model
with a vertically mounted
tip cleaner and horizonal air intake.

The Economy Lamp Company
also made Model 401 (left),
which has a nickel plated
brass fount,
and Model 417 (right),
which has a green painted brass fount.
The generators on these
models are compatible with Coleman.
The lamp on the right has
a hanging rod; only the bottom can be seen in the image.
The lamp on the right has
a flat steel eye bolt to hold the shade hanger.

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.
An unknown model of torch
lighting, gasoline lamp
made by Home Mfg. Co. of
DesMoines, Iowa.
This two mantled 300 cp
lamp
is easily recognized by
the turned-down valve wheel.
This lamp is in Neil McRae's
collection.

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, horizonal 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 greyscale image
shows that the burner has a upward diversion
with a "mantle cap" to
continuously heat the generator.

Leacock Coleman made the
Model 100 (left) and 107 (right) table lamps,
which are based on the
1920's Coleman Quick Lite model.
Model 100 has a steel fount,
handle, and shade holder
that Dan Leeds had to repaint
as the original gold paint,
while the 107 features
a stainless steel fount and handle.
The lamps have reproduction
Coleman 329 shades.
A primary market for this
lamp is the 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 becasue 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.