Anyone Else Here Collect Coleman ?

Any of you have opinions on old style wick lanterns? I am not a lantern learned guy...Are Feuerhand better than Dietz or are they both over priced and just buy a wally world Stansport???? I like the looks of the old wick lantern even though they don't produce light the way pressure lamps do.

 

I got these yesterday at a yard sale.......... $7.50 apiece.

 

here's a nice trio, i just finished the model B, it's the one in the middle, i think this one burns brighter than any other i have..........

 

finally got around to changing out the fount on my L227, another bright burner...........

 

I only have one now and I'm gonna have to give it some love soon.
Looking for a dual fuel reasonably priced.
Like so many other things, the shipping kills a lot of good deals.


Mike

 

Welcome! I've used pump gas in mine before without any problems......... I'm always looking for a dual fuel.

 

I've been watching this thread with interest. I am not a collector, but I will buy them if the price is right.

I have a 200a lantern and a little 502 burner. I've used the lantern but it is just shooting a big fireball out and sooting the glass. I probably need to go through it. I've used the 502 a few times. I picked up for $5 at an estate sale. It will be going out on the ice this year for heating food. I am impressed with it.

I have an older Coleman campstove that I take now, but the 502 will pack better.

 

Hope I don't get excommunicated from the thread for non-Coleman, non-mantle lantern posting. I splurged on a Feuerhand 276.

 

looks real nice, in the coleman/gpa world, people that like or collect wick style lanterns are referred to as "wickies", i still have a few, and they still see use, but find yourself a nice nickle plated coleman or other brand gpa lantern or lamp, and you may change which you like best, i still like both gpa and wick style lanterns..........

 

Forgive my ignorance but I am so new to the lantern/lamp scene that you can still smell my paint drying. GPA..?..Grade Point Average, Get Propane Asap, Go Pump Again, Grandpa is a Pain in the A$$...wait that is what my wife says about me.

 

Gas Pressurized Appliance, don't feel bad, i took me a few weeks to figure out what it stood for when i got into the hobby...........

 

sounds like your 200a may need a new generator, i picked up a near new condition 533a stove a couple months ago, at it's lowest heat setting it still boiled over my coffee pot, may make a stand to hold the coffee pot a little higher over the flame, otherwise it works very well............

 

i think i'm really starting to like the nickle plated jobs, alot of work to restore, but well worth the effort.............

 

As I set on the cusp of a new addiction looking at a couple GPA lanterns I have questions about one. After a few minutes searching I think I am looking at an Akron model 103 fresh from a grainary with a Coleman globe. Is there any value in this lantern. All nickel plated un touched for many years. Can I even get parts if needed. Is it white gas or kerosene? Only have seen a pic of it.

 

you might want to check Terry Marsh's site, it shows five versions of the 103 but two are painted founts, three are nickle, so you'll need to find out which one it is first, i'm not real big into to the akron lanterns so my knowledge is limited on them, but looking at the pics of the 103's they don't appear to be kero models, i don't see a priming cup on them, gotta watch out for hairline cracks on the founts, akrons seam to be more prone to this than colemans, as far as value, i'd check completed listings on ebay to see what they've sold for in the past and where any currant listings are at if there are any, here's the three pics shown on terrys site of the nickle fount 103's..........

 

Looking at the second is a dead ringer for it.

 

very nice looking lantern, hope you can get it reasonably, the generator on that one is like the one on my akron lamp, it's akron's answer to colemans "quicklite" q99 generator, keep us posted on how you do on it...........

 

That looks like a simple design.

 

had the day off today so i hit up a local antique mall to pick up a common model E lantern that still had it's original globe in it, i've walked past it several times even though it was only priced at twenty bucks, but i was starting to run thin on the green sunshine globes that i've been using in my nickle plated lanterns, as i was just about to leave a vender was walking past with more stuff for his booth, on top was a near new condition model F in it's box, he let me have it for 25., the model E cleaned up well and lit right off after putting fresh fuel in it, a pic of the F..............

 

here's three more i had a chance to do some cleaning and swapping of globes on today, the harder to find "big hat" kamplite, a not so common coleman model C, and my first coleman 220 slant, still haven't tried to fire any of these three, but see no reason why they shouldn't..........