This is an instant lighting gasoline lantern of about 200 cp sold by Sears Roebuck in their mail order catalogues. I think I have the date about right here although I could be a year or two out. I don't have this lantern in any catalogue from either Sears or the manufacturer who were Prentiss Wabers Products Co., Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin USA. It will be a variation of Prentiss Wabers model L14 which was finished in green and has a different filler cap arrangement. Neat little beast that works very well. However as it has a combined pump filler with a single check valve I do not consider this to be a particularly safe lantern to operate on gasoline.
I have now got a better idea of date for this one. Catalogued as model number 7416 in Fall 1933 and Spring 1934 as a blue enamel finish. It is not listed again until Fall 1935 as the same model number but now in green enamel finish. ::Neil::
Neil, how fid the date ranges fall for this model with the smaller (here) and larger (in my post in the PW section)? I hope to get this version some day. Wisconsin Rapids is less than 90 minutes from my house.
All the Sears catalogues are available on line on Ancestry.com. You have to be a subscriber to this genealogy site. I have downloaded images of all the lamps they sold from around 1916 to the 1980s. It was a bit of a nightmare to view all the images and catalogue the models and identify the makers but I have it all recorded now and I can spot a Sears lamp or lantern to the exact time frame they were sold. ::Neil::
I guess the point of my comment was missed. It appears the smaller vent version came first, have you only found it to be from 1934?
I can only go with what the catalogue shows. It is not illustrated in the fall '34 and sprig '35 catalogues but is listed as blue. Here are the five listings with 7416. ::Neil::
