This is a prototype for the Model 500CK lantern model
that Levi Glick developed in the summer, 2001 for his
H.C. Lanterns company in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
He uses Coleman founts with his burner (right image)
in a kerosene version (left image) and a naptha (white gas) version.
The ventilator is his design; the lantern can be hung from a ceiling
with an optional lamp hanger rod.

The Herz Manufacturing Co., St Paul, Minnesota
made this 350 cp Marvel-Lite lantern.
It has a built-in pump; air enters the intake
via holes in the top of the base tube under the globe cage base
This lantern lacks the mica globe and one burner cap.
This torch lit lantern is in Bob Frank's collection.

The stenciling on the fount states: No 456,
Mfd. by Hydro Carbon Light Co., Seattle (Washington).
The lantern resembles other models
that were known to be marketed for lighting poultry houses.
This lantern, in Ronnie Hardison's collection,
may have been made by another manufacturer.

Justrite Mfg. Co. in Chicago, IL, made two lantern models of which we are aware.
Both are two mantled models;
an instruction sheet for Model 25 has a printers date of Jan. 1926.
The Justrite name appears on the sides of the ventilators.
Model 25, on the left, lacks a pump while Model 30, center and right, has a built-in pump.
The lantern in the center is in Craig Seabrook's collection while the one on the right is in Neil McRae's collection.

This image is of a working double mantled lantern
manufactured by the Knight Light Company, Chicago, IL.
Neil McRae, the owner of this unlabeled lantern, identified it
by its similarity to a labeled single mantled version.
Perhaps built prior to 1920, it has the unsupported globe frame that
are a feature of several early manufacturer's lanterns.
A unique feature is the the pair of spring clips (see photo)
that hold the ventilator to the top of the frame.

Lancaster Lanterns makes the Model 720 Nite-Hawk lantern.
The lantern on the left and adjacent is a prototype, fitted on the left with a new ventilator.
As tested (next to left) the original ventilator was cut back to test heat escape.
The production model in Neil McRae's collection (next to right) has been replaced
with a larger fount version, as in Henry Plews' collection (right).
Features include a stainless steel fount & pressure gauge.
This Amish kerosene lantern is very bright with two 500 cp mantles!

These Lind-O-Lite lanterns were manufactured by the
A.J. Lindemann & Hoverson Co., Milwaukee, WI.
All have a carburetor valve and the number 684-369 on the burner.
The model in the middle may predate the other two
which are wide and narrow ventilator versions of the same lantern.
The lanterns on the left and in the center are in Craig Seabrook's collection;
the lantern on the right is in Neil McRae's collection.

Another Lind-O-Lite lantern model, possibly Model 115,
lacks the carburetor valve but is also designed for instant lighting.
There is a hole drilled in the glass for lighting the mantles.
The generator is interchangeable with the Coleman 220/228 generator;
the latter is being used here to run this lantern.

This lantern was made by the Little Wonder Light Co., Terre Haute, Indiana.
It may have been marketed as a poultry lantern.
A hollow wire lamp with similar burners was advertised as having 1250 cp!
The heat output of this lantern led someone to drill additional air holes
in the ventilator cap, which deformed from the intense heat output.
The globe, cage, and ventilator were restored by Fred Kuntz and Craig Seabrook.

The Model A pressure lantern Aladdin was manufactured by
The Mantle Lamp Co. of America, Chicago, USA.
This kerosene model, which dates to 1934, is in Larry Pennell's collection.
This lantern is a natural brass finish; others known are nickel-plated brass.
Please contact me if you know of any lanterns of this model.

This PL-1 was made by the Mantle Lamp Co. of America, Chicago, IL,
from 1939 to about 1947 with a hiatus during the war years.
This is the probably the first "modern" lantern that Fil knows of
that has the vaporized fuel injected into the top of the mixing chamber,
and evidently was the design prototype to the military lantern.
Neil McRae notes that it can be run on kerosene or gasoline and has an adjustable air
intake to enable the burner to work with the same efficiency.
This lantern is in Fil Graff's collection.
This model came with a match holder, right image,
seen here in Neil McRae's collection.

The Mantle Lamp Co. of America probably made
this prototype donut lantern in the late 1940's.
 Patents and another prototype in the current Aladdin Mantle Lamp Company's office
suggest that this may have been an experiment to design a civilian
as well as a military donut model.
Shadow reduction is the aim in this design.

The Mantle Lamp Co. of America may have made a short run of these lanterns
for the military to test, as did Coleman.
This one, in Dan Gommel Jr's collection,
has a globe that lacks the bottom opening for lighting.
As the globe on the version by Coleman lacks this opening,
the globes may have been switched between the two models.

This is a McGraw-Edison (Boonville, MO) lantern-stove combo, Model 681004.
The bail holds the lantern burner and ventilator on the globe cage.
The conversion to the stove from the lantern
involves lifting off the lantern head and slipping the stove burner tube over the generator.
The reflector is removable.
This lantern-stove combo, in Bob Meyer's collection,
came in the green plastic storage case.