You mentioned those lanterns again in todays post!
Nickle based one is a 242. Don't know the single letter at a glance following number to indicate model. It is stamped on the silver collar between fount and burner frame.
Dents in the fount are not the removable kind. Collectors would cringe a little.
As with the wrong fuel caps on some of the lanterns including one incomplete fuel cap.
Remember the screws in caps vs flat caps no screws? We have a situation on one lantern a new cap is on an older one. No biggie unless looking for an original.
The 242 has a smaller fuel cap than the others. Funnels sold by Coleman and other aftermarket ones reflected that. You might see a "stepped" funnel to fit both old and new.
The ring to seal the fuel cap is different of course. So we don't see those caps getting mixed up as much.
Busted knob on the 200A on the left.
Just abuse? Or is the valve stuck?
Globes (the glass) often get broke and replaced. Logos and suppliers vary.
Original globe needs to match the original production. The 242 for example with a green Coleman sunrise is worth more than a later replacement with a red lettered one.
And globes sure got/get mixed. As do other parts.
Brought home a well abused "parts" looking more like scrap 200A I've mentioned before as a group buy to get a particular lantern I wanted. Someone was ambitious and had put the wrong burner tube in it off who knows what. Why remains a mystery.
Some vents (the top piece of porcelain coated metal) won't secure the globe from rattling.
That's not what holds the globe. But users/owners get to cranking on the top knob/screw trying to tighten it more and chip the porcelain. Almost rare to find one not damaged that way.
But looking at the vents in the picture above , most are blemished one way or another.
What we can't see is what fuel was used or if air/gas mix to become fuel and pass through generator (just a tube the gas gets heated in before the mixing (with air) chamber headed into burners. R.U.G. (regular unleaded gas) leaves horrible residue. Gets gummy.
Cleaning a gummy fount and replacing the generator (some are patient and skilled enough to try to clean a gummed generator , sometimes successfully) means not paying as much for the lantern. Much less or running away if it's me anymore.
A part that is pricey due to being scarce really ups the cost of the lantern.
Clemans are good compared to many others when parts chasing or robbing parts off another.
But a running lantern beats a nonrunner hands down at buy time for most folks.
There's a reason (beyond optimistic prices here) those lanterns were there. No offence to the seller .
I have beaters too, Vs collector high grades. But they are workers too. Some of which took a lot to bring back to working condition.
Worse things a person can collect to work on now and then. And the reward is the hiss and fire and heat and light and the tales of years gone by a lantern sighs we don't grasp all of like it's a foreign language. But get a bit of an understanding of by osmosis and how it breaths. Now strong and hale , hours later a slight reduction followed by understandable without words need to help it out. Followed by distinct flutter if you don't.
Oh and stoves too! l.o.l..
I need a garage.
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