Has anyone had any experience or advice on stenciling or etching mica lantern chimneys? I have an original Coleman lantern chimney which has the Coleman stenciled on it and I would like to duplicate the stencil on a reproduction chimney. See the attached photo. Thanks, Peter from Mont Vernon, NH USA
Hi ! Possibly a way around your proberlem is to look for one of the people advertising Transferrs or decals to go onto your lamp restoration . Here in England it would be some one with a computer able to cut out computer aided images. Like " TILLEY LAMP BR49 " for example. If you get stuck I know Maurice Snowden in Limerick,Southern Ireland who makes decals and may help you. To try and paint the word Coleman on again a decal could be cut with hollew letters ie a stencil and applyed to surface ,then when dry paint with colour of your choice and again when dry peel of carefully or scrape off decal. Ideally a flat surface would be easier to control than a curved surface. Get a spare bit of mica first to allow for mistakes ! Maybe this will help. ...mick
Don't know for sure, but I'd be amazed if Fred Kuntz hadn't managed to find a way to reproduce that detail...
Hi Peter; The stenciled mica shades were later. Make sure you are stenciling for the right time period. Many later replacement shades were also stenciled. Mike...
There may be an issue with copyright law for Fred to stencil/stamp the Coleman name on a product they don't sell. His sandblast globes for the 220/228B and 242 have the name on them. So maybe there has been an "exception" granted for that one. Bob
Mike (flivver), This shade is intended for a 6/1936 Coleman 243. Would a stenciled mica chimney be appropriate? Peter
I think Fred does stencil his Coleman mica globes and I think he includes something so it can be told apart from an original like he does with the Pyrex globes...
I believe a rubber stamp or brass stamp was used to mark the mica chimneys... it has that sort of look to it...
