US lantern manufacturers Q - Z

These Model R-132 lanterns
were made by Radiant Products, Inc., Akron, OH.
The Akron Lamp Co.
used the brand name Radiant from the 1930's
and changed from Diamond
to Radiant after WWII and went out of business in 1948.
Both lanterns are original
and share the same model number.
The lantern on the left
is in David Jahn's collection;
the lantern on the right
is in John Bell's collection.


The bottoms of these lanterns
are stamped:
San Diego Lamp and Mfg.
Co., San Diego, California, Patented 1924.
A horizonal cut in the
brass stem just above the valve on the left (center image)
allows air to mix with
the gas for preheating.
The lantern on the left
is in Fil Graff's collection.
The mica globe (not shown
- right image) pushes up under the ventilator for lighting.

The Sunflame Appliances
Ltd., Ridgefield, New Jersey,
made this Model 107 lantern
perhaps in the 1950's.
It burns either kerosene
or gasoline;
a narrow preheater is fitted
around the base of the generator.
This lantern has characteristics
of both Akron Lamp
and American Gas Machine
Companies products
reflecting the merger of
those companies in that time period.

Sunflame Appliances Ltd.
also made this Model 109 which is similar to the 107 above.
This model has a nickel
plated fount and the burner is a more substantial casting.
Joe Pagan, whose collection
this is in, found this lantern in Bolivia.
Someone made a replacement
globe from glass strips
and aluminum can strips
for the globe frame.
The pump appears to be
a replacement from another appliance.
Sunflame Model 112 is a
500cp kerosene fueled lantern
that is very similar to
the earlier AGM 3470.
This lantern has a chrome
plated brass fount and original bulge globe
as shown in the instruction
and parts sheet that came with it.
The paperwork is dated
March, 1955.
This lantern also came
with the original wrench
and alcohol bottle.
This Nulite lantern made
by National Stamping & Electric Works of Chicago
is stamped Sunshine Safety
Lamp Co. Kansas City, Missouri.
As Nulite it is Model 2
and a torch lighting model with a tip cleaner.
I don't know the name or
model that Sunshine Safety gave this lantern.
The lantern has a nickel
plated brass that has stress cracks
and it cannot be run.
Based on the burner design
this lantern
was manufactured by the
Gloria Light Co. of Chicago, Illinois,
for the Sunshine Safety
Lamp Co., Kansas City,
whose label is soldered
to the bottom of the fount.
The bail is a reproduction
based on another Gloria Light Co. lantern
and the mica globe was
borrowed from this other lantern.
Another model for Sunshine
Safety, this lantern was made by
the Coleman Lamp &
Stove Co.
and has many of the same
parts as Quick-Lite Model L327.
The collar, generator,
and cap nut are different from that model.
The center globe cage base
disk is stamped
Sunshine Safety Lamp Co.,
Kansas City, MO.
This Thomas Kerosafe lantern,
Model M1004, was made
by the Thomas Mfg. Co.,
Dayton, OH.
It is a kerosene model
as the name implies.
This working lantern is
missing the mica globe
which has two reinforced
holes to allow passage of the horizontal air intake tubes.
It is in Neil McRae's collection.

I believe that this unmarked
lantern was made by
the Tures Mfg. Co., Milwaukee,
Wisconsin,
based on a small image
of a Tures lantern in a magazine from the 1910's
The vertical rod was apparently
used
to raise the tip cleaner
in the generator
but the tip cleaner and
connecting bar are missing.
This is a Model 711 lantern
made by the Turner Brass
Works, Inc., Sycamore, IL.
This lantern has the Turner
decal on the fount.
Note the hole in the mica
globe to light the mantle.
This 150 cp model was made
in the '30's until perhaps the mid 40's.
Neil McRae restored this
lantern including repainting.


Model X-159 (top left),
Model 1501 (top right),
Model 1511 (bottom left),
and Model 1512 (bottom right),
were also manufactured
by Turner Brass.
They can be recognized
as Turner by their distinctive two valve system.
These lanterns are in Craig
Seabrook's collection
except for the Champion
badged 1501 (upper right) which is in Thom Kivler's collection.
Turner Brass Works made
this 911 Model lantern
as an economical alternative
to the 1511 Model above.
In a product sheet dated
March, 1936
they noted that it had
the same fount and "fool proof mechanism"
as the more expensive model.
The ventilator is steel
with parts chrome plated, not enameled.

After looking at the preceding
images, you can see that these lanterns
have elements of both Prentiss-Wabers
and Turner models,
but were probably made
by Turner based on the burner and fuel line parts.
They are branded Brooklure
on the fount decal and Model 5035 on the globe rest label;
Brooklure was a brand name
of Spiegels, a department store chain.
The hang tags on the lantern
on the right, in Joe Pagan's collection,
are dated December 14,
1939; the globes have holes for lighting.