The lanterns on the left and right are in Shirley Willard’s collection. Coleman made the “D” version of Model 228 from the mid 1940’s until 1951. This one, in Patrick Fay’s collection, is dated April, 1948, and has the original globe on which Coleman appears in large faint green letters. This was the last version to have a nickel plated brass fount and the pump is held in by two small screws, not a spring clip.
We believe this Coleman 200A lantern dated February 1952 is a prototype for the production of the IR lanterns made several years later. For more information see The Coleman Light, Vol 26, No 2, Pages 1, 4-5. This lantern was also made in Wichita and is dated Nov ’51 as the above lantern for the OCD. It doesn’t have the engraved OCD number on the fount but has the same parts noted above from the Coleman – Toronto factory as on the OCD model. This lantern has it’s original box with the same label as on the OCD lantern boxes (right image).
The test was conducted in my shop which coleman lantern is a approximately 30ft X 30ft.
Air from the pump is piped up to the top of the fount. Shipping records show several hundred were sent from July – December, 1924 (Becker). They were the first Coleman model to have a pump as part of the lantern. These lanterns are in Shirley Willard’s (left)& Dean DeGroff’s (right) collections.
The LED was much different with its white, daylight balanced light. I wanted lanterns that ran on different fuels, but were similar in construction. The gas and propane lanterns are all generally the same type, but the battery operated lanterns come in many different shapes and sizes. The one I choose most closely resembles the other two.
Putting out 1500 lumens, it is the brightest of the three. Then it was the gas lantern at 860 lumens, followed by the LED at only 360 lumens. Among the coleman camping items in the museum are Coleman hot plates, an electric brew (coffee pot), a taste oven and irons, as well as all types of Coleman lamps and lanterns.
The lantern on the left is in Doug Dwyer’s collection. The lantern on the right lacks its generator and is in Don Colston’s collection. Coleman still sells a variety of lanterns that are powered by propane, kerosene, or camp fuel (aka white gas). They are still built coleman lantern in Wichita Kansas (though some parts, such as the globes, are made in China) and are widely available for sale online and in some big box stores. Coleman continued making the 242C lantern until December, 1950, even though they were making the new Model 200 above.