I need a correct lantern

[G.W. Strong]

I am looking for a correct oil lantern for an mid 1880s hardware store owner out on the range hunting.

[Stu Kettle]

Dietz still makes the "hurricane lantern" that they've been making since about 1840. I've got an old rusty one & a new blue one - look the same & parts will interchange.

[Mean Bob Mean]

I am looking for a correct oil lantern for an mid 1880s hardware store owner out on the range hunting.

I have a Welsh Miner's lamp, they were perfected in the early 1800s (1820 or so) and introduced over here.

[bear tooth billy]

G.W., we'll have them buffs skinned and butchered before dark.  If you must stay up after dark
look up W.T. Kirkman, that's the company I couldn't think of the other day.



                                           BTB

[Tsalagidave]

Here are a few I recommend. Prices vary from least to most expensive. I did that on purpose. Hope this helps.

Dixie Tinworks: http://www.dixietinworks.com/lanterns.html

Village Tinsmith: http://www.csa-dixie.com/villagetinsmith/f.html

Otter Creek Tinware: http://www.ottertin.com/light ing.html

-Dave

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Lee Valley; Welsh miners lantern @ $79;  http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/page.aspx?p=32450&cat=2,40731,32450

They also stock the Dietz #80, cheaper & made in China.

[Books OToole]

Although all of the pertinent patens were issued in the 1870s and 1880s the cold blast style lanterns were not common until the 1890s.  The only hot blast style that is currently available is the Dietz Monarch ($20) or the Kirkman # 0 ($189*).  You can pick up used/antique hot blast lanterns in working condition for about $20.

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* Solid brass, square tube / dead on authentic for the late 1860s and later.

[Major 2]

I had one of the Village Tinsmithing Works  #71 hanging lamp,   I used an citronella oil  that drove off Mosquito's.
Works quite well

[Books OToole]

http://www.lanternnet.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/tn0Tublular.jpg

I was wrong.  They have gone up.  It is now $229


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[TwoWalks Baldridge]

Dave the link as posted did not work.  I noticed a space between /light ing.html, so trying this to see if it works.

Otter Creek Tinware: http://www.ottertin.com/lighting.html

-Dave

Checked it out and it works.

[Shotgun Franklin]

Do know that most lamps made in Europe are marked 'Use With Paraffin Only'. Paraffin over there is kerosene here, not liquid paraffin used in some oil lamps.

[G.W. Strong]

I ordered  Deitz until I can afford a Kirkman.

[Stu Kettle]

I ordered  Deitz until I can afford a Kirkman.

Did you get the hot blast or the cold blast style?

[G.W. Strong]

Did you get the hot blast or the cold blast style?

Hot blast

[bear tooth billy]

G.W. I believe you'll have the same one as me, I had a cold blast and then after one of Book's seminars
I got a hot blast to go in my 1870's camp


                                           BTB

[G.W. Strong]

G.W. I believe you'll have the same one as me, I had a cold blast and then after one of Book's seminars
I got a hot blast to go in my 1870's camp


                                           BTB

Here is the one I got.

[River City John]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-DIETZ-THE-ORIGINAL-BLACK-KEROSENE-OIL-LANTERN-EXCELLENT-CONDITION-/121389505566?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4360dc1e


Not sure what year this would be. . .


RCJ

[pony express]

I'd say that qualifies as the "cold blast" type, since it has vent holes around the top.

[Books OToole]

Good choice G.W.

I have an old Dietz, with a small leak in the tank; so I don't use that one.  I have a Kirkman # 0 that was given to me, 2 Paul's and a Rayo.  The Paul's work great and I believe that the mechanism is superior to the Dietz.  I have yet to use the Rayo in the field.  I will give a report on it after its field test.

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[River City John]

I noticed they have antique ones, Rayo, Paulls, Dietz, etc. for some very reasonable prices.

Now that you've put that bug in my ear about hot blast being more period correct, I'll have to upgrade.



RCJ