Coleman 249 Seafoam A1946

Love it when a plan comes together!!

I’ve been after one of these for a very long time, but I’ve never been prepared to pay the going eBay prices.

Wiped down with soap and water, there’ll be no polish on this little beauty.

Huge overburn, but I found a spare jet which is now doing the trick.

Now to be patient and let it cool a little so I can fire it up properly. I’m not very patient though so maybe I’ll just have to burn my fingers a bit

 

Me too! I finally found one and it’s a real treasure! You have a fine example and it should clean up nicely. They are one fine little lantern. Mine was made in the US in 1949, too, but I don’t remember the month! I think yours was made in Canada (?) sea foam color tells me it’s not made in the US.
Mine came with a blue handle thingy so you don’t have to carry it by the bail. It was hanging on a coat rake in an antique store of all places!

 

A lucky find.

 

The're a good little lantern and the paint looks in reasonable condition. Congratulations

 

I have a Canadian 249 3/45 in seafoam. They are a little gem of a lantern.

 

What is the shape of the nut in the filler cap? Dome or hex? Might be Australian under licence from Canada.

 

@Sedgman The nut in the frame is a wing nut, and the screw on the filler cap is dome shaped.

Definitely Made in Canada (it says so on the font).

I’ve never seen an Aussie made painted font, do they exist??

 

@Buckaroo

Thanks for the response to my question re the filler cap screws.
Re your mentioning the stamping on the fount; I agree and would certainly trust the stamping on the fount for Coleman lanterns. (Maybe not for Aladdin Lamp stampings on the winder keys!).

Probably not, but best for me not to assume that either.

The paint colour on the ventilators varies quite a lot on just the Australian models.

Thanks for clarifying the filler cap nut. The round heads are usually Canadian and the cheese heads are Australian but I have seen one, and one only Canadian with a cheese head filler cap screw. I'm sure someone will say it might have been replaced and on the other hand it may just be what it is.

Regards

 

Heres my seafoams, I'm thinking of painting the one on the left as it's virtually bare brass but I haven't found a spray can that matches yet. Apparently they used Chrysler paint from back in the day

 

I took my seafoam vent to a local auto parts store that mixes paint in spray cans. They got a colour sample from the vent, matched it perfectly, and put the paint in a spray can. It wasn't cheap though. It was $30 Canadian dollars and that was almost 10 years ago.