Prices, Promotions, styles, and availability may vary. Prices and availability of products and services are subject to change without notice. Errors will be corrected where discovered, and Lowe’s reserves the right to revoke any stated offer and to correct coleman canopy any errors, inaccuracies or omissions including after an order has been submitted. Model 202, the Professional (left), is dated Jan., ’55. This model was produced for 10 years beginning in 1954 For the first couple of years the burner cap was ceramic.
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. Coleman made hundreds of Arc lantern Model H 416 from 1922 – 1925 (Strong – Shipping Records). This lantern was restored by Steve Retherford for Mike Coon, whose collection this is in. Coleman made the Model 200A for 32 years beginning in 1951.
Model 220C has a yellow decal on the fount with lighting instructions. As did the predecessor 220BX/220C made during WWII. The first production of instant lighting lanterns was in March, 1928 when Coleman made the L220 and L228 (above- missing mica globe). The embossed ventilators date it to 1922 or later.
These earliest 200A lanterns had green painted steel founts and, by November, also had the Coleman decal. This Model 220D dated A 50 is unusual in having the sides of the brass fount painted green instead of being nickel plated. Coleman may have been testing the paint or the market for these prior to making coleman canopy all of them this way in A 51. This lantern is in Agostino Del Coro’s collection. This MF143 lantern is stamped Sunshine Safety Lamp Co. on the baffle plate and is a built-in pump version of Model MF125 above. The brackets in the middle portion of the ventilator center the mica globe (image above).
The lantern on the left is in Jim Fulmer’s collection. Monte Dodge’s 202, running (right), is dated Mar. ’57 and has a metal burner cap. The LAMPAK Company, North Hollywood, California, made these galvanized steel cases circa the early 1950s.