![]() The purpose of the hood (left) is to reflect light out. This 220D (dated B 50) is mounted in a Clamp-A-Hood marketed by the Ernie Brow Sales Co., Anderson, Indiana. This lantern is in Agostino Del Coro’s collection. Coleman may have been testing the paint or the market for these prior to making all of them this way in A 51. This Model 220D dated A 50 is unusual in having the sides of the brass fount painted green instead of being nickel plated. The globe was removed for the image on the left. This lantern is in George Burl’s collection. The generator has a greater diameter than on the gasoline fueled 242C lower on this page. Later US 249s had a circular preheater cup that fit around the generator and an embossed, rather than stamped, base rest. A kerosene fueled model, the earlier lanterns had a wide lipped preheater cup (right image) such as on this one dated February 1949. The Wichita factory made Model 249 lanterns for fewer years, 1947-58, than the Toronto factory, 1938-1970. This lantern is in a Coleman collection near Sugarcreek, Ohio. Note the alcohol preheating can for the kerosene fueled 237 lantern in the images. The two attachments are mounted in the bottom of the case in front of the lantern for transport. It is unique among the three in having an attachment to show lantern slides (lower image) in addition to 35mm slides and film strips (upper image). The Charles Beseler Co., New York, made this 237 projector lantern. also made a similar projector for this lantern (below). These undated lanterns are in Greg McCartney’s, left, and Shirley Willard’s, right, collections. The potential markets were missionaries and rural communities that lacked electric power, according to a 1949 Coleman News. ![]() The blue handled Coleman reflector, #242C790, is made for the 242 series, 247, and 249 model lanterns.Ĭoleman 237 lanterns with an American Optical film strip and slide projector (left) and a Society for Visual Education Inc. This model was produced from 1942-50 some of them have the fount finished in green paint rather than nickel plated as here. ![]() ’48, and is little changed from the 242B predecessor model. Note the two pegs in the bottom bracket of the reflector to engage the corresponding holes in the globe cage bottom for attachment.Īnother lantern in Deems Burton’s collection, the 242C, is dated Aug. The black handled Coleman reflector, 220D790, fits 220C-F models. This Model 220D, in Deems Burton’s collection, is almost like new and is dated B ’48, which we think means it was made in July-Dec of that year. 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. 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 lantern is in Dan MacPherson’s collection.Ĭoleman made the “D” version of Model 228 from the mid 1940’s until 1951. The brass sided, green painted fount is also characteristic of that time. The two piece stamped burner (lower image) was used on a number of lamps and lantern models for a short time after WWII before Coleman returned to cast burners.Ĭoleman likely made this Model 237 shortly after WWII, circa 1946, judging by the fount stamp they used during this period (upper right image) and the steel tip cleaner nut (lower image) used primarily during WWII. This lantern is in John Stendahl’s collection. This early 220D has all the same features as the 228D above but is date stamped B 47. 1946) compare to the date range for Models 220C and 228C above. However, this lantern, in Jim Lawrence’s collection, is date stamped B 46 (July – Dec. This lantern is stamped 228D on the collar and has the features that one finds on other 220/228D’s of the mid 1940’s including the large valve wheel, two-piece stamped burner, and “D” version of the instruction decal. This lantern, dated B (July – Dec) 1946, is in John Stendahl’s collection. Model 228C has the same features as Model 220C above including a green painted brass fount, screw-on pump cap, and yellow lighting instruction decal. as did the predecessor 220BX/220C made during WWII.Ĭoleman only manufactured Model 228C after WWII, from late 1945 until early 1947, with some production overlap with Model 228D (below). ![]() Model 220C has a yellow decal on the fount with lighting instructions. This lantern, in John Stendahl’s collection, is dated October 1945. Coleman stamped Model 220C on the lanterns they made from 1944 until 1947.
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