Left; Coleman’s first lantern, the 316. Right; Coleman 319. Both were torch light lanterns.
Left; Coleman 323. Right, Coleman 327 Quick Lite, the first lantern that could be lit with a match.
Coleman 237 lantern with slide projector. Used for extension work before electricity was prevalent in rural areas.
Coleman 327 poultry lantern. Used to increase winter egg production.
Coleman 427. First lantern with a built-in pump. All lanterns before required an external pump to pressurize the fount.
Coleman 460 Handy Gas Plant, 50,000 BTU’s! Coleman #4 iron, note the gas tank on the back.
Coleman goes to war. Left: paratrooper stove. Right; 52 burner for field hospital. In the rear, 1944 military lantern.
After World War Two, Coleman starts focusing on camping. On the left is the 530 pocket stove, modeled after its military stove. Right, 500 Sportster stove. In the back is a 1968 military lantern.
Back left, Prentis-Waber lantern (competitor of Coleman), front and center Coleman 243A (economical lantern). Back right, Coleman 228B, one of the best lanterns ever made and a design that would last for 50 years.
Coleman 200a with metal clam shell case. Early 1970’s.
Coleman 228E, 1960. Almost identical to the 1938 228B.
Back left, example of the first propane lanterns made by Coleman starting in the late 1950’s. Note the small LP gas canister at the base. Front right, example of Coleman lantern made in Toronto, Canada. Some lanterns made in Canada were unique to Canada. Some were almost identical to lanterns built in Wichita, KS, USA.
Coleman 275. Coleman’s first attempt at the Schrader valve. The first examples did not run so well. That and the brown color has earned this lantern the nick-name “the turd” among Coleman Collectors.
Coleman 220K, 1986. Design still very similar to the 220B built 50 years earlier.
Left front; 502 stove with carry case. Back; 222 backpacking lantern. Front right; 285.
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