I happen to have 2 WWII Military Coleman(olive green) lanterns. Both are new in their original boxes. I opened one to check it out. It had a small compartment on the bottom with mantels and small parts. The other is still unopened. I think they are single mantel lanterns. Never used 'em. We also have a Coleman iron and it does work. Hot to deal with though. We had 3 or 4 but gave a couple to some Amish families we know. I also gave the one family my belt driven hammer mill when theirs died.. They had an old McCormick tractor on steel they used for grinding feed. They ground our feed for us our last couple of years raising critters. It is a lot of work. I just gave my daughter one of our single burner cook stoves. She has it in her gear for the search and rescue team she is on.
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Coleman Lantern Mantels
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We have a Coleman lantern and a propane stove. The stove gets quite a bit of use but not the lantern.
Technology has moved on.
I bought this lantern for 60 dollars I was surprised how small it was. It's about 4 inches tall and I would say an inch and a half in outer diameter. It comes with an 18650 battery and it will operate on the same battery as my UC35 flashlight or 2 CR123s.
The top is magnetic and the bottom has a built-in flashlight with brightness levels of 5 or 25 lumens. I can't imagine any use for that but it's there if I need it.
There's also a red emergency flasher (1 lumen) that could be useful for marking your car for roadside assistance or if you had call EMS you can put it in the window and they wouldn't have to waste time looking for your address. The lantern setting has 3 levels 40L/30hrs 150L/15 hrs and
400L/5 hrs. I can recharge it with a solar charger and it uses an LED.
Technology has moved on.
I bought this lantern for 60 dollars I was surprised how small it was. It's about 4 inches tall and I would say an inch and a half in outer diameter. It comes with an 18650 battery and it will operate on the same battery as my UC35 flashlight or 2 CR123s.
The top is magnetic and the bottom has a built-in flashlight with brightness levels of 5 or 25 lumens. I can't imagine any use for that but it's there if I need it.
There's also a red emergency flasher (1 lumen) that could be useful for marking your car for roadside assistance or if you had call EMS you can put it in the window and they wouldn't have to waste time looking for your address. The lantern setting has 3 levels 40L/30hrs 150L/15 hrs and
400L/5 hrs. I can recharge it with a solar charger and it uses an LED.
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Ivan the Butcher
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When we go camping in a State Park or other organized campground, It isn't the people with the quarter million dollar RV, that I want to check out! I want to see the gear of the guy with 4 or 5 kids, a big old tent and a Dutch Oven! He is putting a huge memory in those kids that will sustain them for the rest of their lives!
My wife and I started the first summer we were married. Every other weekend we were camped under a big tree on one of our farms! We had my 220 lantern and my 425 stove, but the fire grate and long forks and pie irons got the main cooking duty. I picked up a #10 Dutch Oven, and deep dish pizza became a camping treat!
AS our kids came along, they went camping ASAP! the longest wait was our daughter, She didn't camp until she was 5 months old! (Our youngest was right at 1 month!)
Now, the kids have kids and a family get together in warm weather involves Campers, Tents, & Cabins. Lawn chairs and bicycles everywhere! The love in the air is at least twice as thick as the wood smoke!
My equipment advise is pretty simple: try and have everything on the same type of fuel. AND you can't own too many long Hot Dog forks!
Medium quality coolers in quantity are better the one high quality cooler!
When camping, all kids and maybe even you will get dirty, Enjoy it! When raining, play in it! When muddy, wallow like a pig. Only clean-up/get shower for the evening, sleep clean and do it again tomorrow!
At home you have 3 meals a day, Camping there is one meal, all day long! A tent or camper is no place to count calories!
Ice cream is hard to take camping, so if there is a camp store with Ice Cream, it is a LAW that Grampa is buying! Sometimes 2 times a day! If no camp store, A Dairy Queen is required both coming and going!
I say and do all this so when my grandkids are grown with families of their own, they invite me to camp with them. (maybe just a day trip)
Ivan
My wife and I started the first summer we were married. Every other weekend we were camped under a big tree on one of our farms! We had my 220 lantern and my 425 stove, but the fire grate and long forks and pie irons got the main cooking duty. I picked up a #10 Dutch Oven, and deep dish pizza became a camping treat!
AS our kids came along, they went camping ASAP! the longest wait was our daughter, She didn't camp until she was 5 months old! (Our youngest was right at 1 month!)
Now, the kids have kids and a family get together in warm weather involves Campers, Tents, & Cabins. Lawn chairs and bicycles everywhere! The love in the air is at least twice as thick as the wood smoke!
My equipment advise is pretty simple: try and have everything on the same type of fuel. AND you can't own too many long Hot Dog forks!
Medium quality coolers in quantity are better the one high quality cooler!
When camping, all kids and maybe even you will get dirty, Enjoy it! When raining, play in it! When muddy, wallow like a pig. Only clean-up/get shower for the evening, sleep clean and do it again tomorrow!
At home you have 3 meals a day, Camping there is one meal, all day long! A tent or camper is no place to count calories!
Ice cream is hard to take camping, so if there is a camp store with Ice Cream, it is a LAW that Grampa is buying! Sometimes 2 times a day! If no camp store, A Dairy Queen is required both coming and going!
I say and do all this so when my grandkids are grown with families of their own, they invite me to camp with them. (maybe just a day trip)
Ivan
THE PILGRIM
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Have a 60s I think Coleman Lantern out in the garage.
No clue which model. Are they marked?
Had a 2 burner Coleman stove. My youngest used it and abused it until we junked it.
I have a new stove, probably wish I still had my old one.
No clue which model. Are they marked?
Had a 2 burner Coleman stove. My youngest used it and abused it until we junked it.
I have a new stove, probably wish I still had my old one.
You can find like new 70’s era model 425E two burner stoves on the auction site for less than $100 shipped. I just looked up a few of them all with the original boxes and paperwork. And they’re built like tanks in Wichita KS.
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My most prized camping possession was a little red Coleman single burner with amber "bug proof" glass lens I picked up back in the sixties. It was broken by a careless friend and I was never able to find a replacement amber lens, I replaced with a clear one and it was never the same...there was something special about that amber light. I kept my original two burner stove running for over thirty years, it was a little cantankerous to get lit but once you figured it out, you had it. I gave it to my son, as far as I know he is still using it even though he has a new leaded gas stove.
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I had a us gov lantern new in box yard sale on army base. I gave a bunch of old lanterns to my son. Àlso a Coleman oven roll up Coleman table as 40 year old cook stove all 3 were nib. Gave it to my son last fall as I was cleaning stuff out. He collects Coleman. Happy son.
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Ivan the Butcher
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Most Coleman lanterns are marked: On newer models with a Model Number close to the operating knob. On most all of them on the bottom of the fuel tank, with a Model Number and most often with a month/year. They did this clear back in the 30's.
My 1974 425 has model number and Month/year stamped on the bottom outside of the body. Same with my 1953 513. My F-I-L's pre WWII 2 burner that is similar to a 425, has no ID that I can find. (It may have been made as a catalog item for Sears or similar)
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In the movie "Joe verses the Volcano", the Tom Hanks character Joe, buys 2 solid brass "Coleman" Lanterns. Those are actually State Machine Products 2 mantle lanterns. They were made to run on regular, unleaded, Mo gas, White gas, Naphtha, and a few other flammables you might find out in the world. A cheaper version is what the army used for years. None of the parts are interchangeable with Coleman products except the mantels.
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My Coleman lanterns, camp stove, tents, cots, sleeping bags, everything has gone to my sons and grandkids. I'll keep the memories of elk camp in the Rockies, 5 below zero overnight, sleeping in a tent, huddling around a Coleman two-burner stove pre-dawn, warming my socks and boots over a Coleman lantern before inserting my feet. What fun!
Anyone else have a Coleman canoe? Bought mine new in 1976 and I still bass fish out of it occasionally. Seventeen feet long and a yard wide it is affectionately known as the "Bass Barge." What they called "Ram-X" in the day it's rust-red polypropylene and the UV inhibitor they used has proved effective.
It's seen it's share of whitewater, in my younger days, and been paddled on more lakes than I remember. I went uptown when I installed a custom motor mount (a fitted 2x4) and clamped on a 35 lb thrust Min-Kota with a twelve volt deep cycle.
The "barge" was really fun to camp out of as it held about the same amount of gear as my Suburban. Plenty of room for two 40 qt. coolers. Lots of stories.
It's seen it's share of whitewater, in my younger days, and been paddled on more lakes than I remember. I went uptown when I installed a custom motor mount (a fitted 2x4) and clamped on a 35 lb thrust Min-Kota with a twelve volt deep cycle.
The "barge" was really fun to camp out of as it held about the same amount of gear as my Suburban. Plenty of room for two 40 qt. coolers. Lots of stories.
I don't have a Coleman, but a friend gave me a couple Dietz lanterns that I'm guessing were made for railroad, or house of ill repute use.
You'll have to pardon the dust, their on a plant shelf that gets cleaned only when I have to change the batteries in my smoke detectors.
You'll have to pardon the dust, their on a plant shelf that gets cleaned only when I have to change the batteries in my smoke detectors.
I had a green one (Coleman canoe) with the squared off stern. Heavy as heck but didn't get dented on rocks and such going down the Delaware river.
On another note I borrowed a butane single burner stove one time. Didn't realize it was useless below zero degrees. Pressure would drop to nothing. Guess I could have heated the butane gas can but I don't always do stupid things.
Coleman camping gear
I have Coleman lanterns and stoves i'm willing to part with. PM me and we will set up a price and method to share.
I have Coleman lanterns and stoves i'm willing to part with. PM me and we will set up a price and method to share.
For family use we are mainly battery operated. For ice fishing nothing gives heat and light like a Coleman lantern in a properly vented ice shack.
As a young Reserve Officer in the 80's I remember hearing on haz-mat placarding, that if it was a new product the Coleman mantle would need to be packed in two cardboard boxes inside of each other. The larger box being 4'x6' due to radiation issues.
As a young Reserve Officer in the 80's I remember hearing on haz-mat placarding, that if it was a new product the Coleman mantle would need to be packed in two cardboard boxes inside of each other. The larger box being 4'x6' due to radiation issues.
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Ivan the Butcher
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Seeing the mention of Colman Canoes reminded me of their Plastic frame backpacks. I never had any adult sized but had 2 models of youth size! For an external frame pack, they worked great for my kids! The problem is it was easy to put too much weight on them for the kids to carry for two or 3 days! I think the wife and decided the 11- and 9-year-old boys could carry their bed roll, sleeping pad, change of clothes and a hatchet or single burner stove and 1 quart canteen. That was about 20-25% of their body weight. I carried about 30-35% back then! 20 years later the younger one and I did the same trip I carried 12-15% (ultra light gear) and it about did me in!
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I already have more gear than space! I used to be able to outfit 6 to 8 families (besides my own) and have sold or given away all the larger stoves, lanterns, and tents except for my personal equipment and a few oddballs. We had a 18' camper that was the gear storage shed in the off seasons!
A word of warning! For the gear's sake sell it reasonable. I gave a bunch to people that use to borrow it. They generally destroyed it! "Since it cost them nothing, it must have been worthless!" and when something needed serviced, they just threw it away! (That was 6 lanterns, 4 two burner stoves and 4 tents and spare parts just gone!) So, I sold about the same number of stoves and lantern at flea markets. If it was a dealer, I was pretty firm on my very good prices. If it was a young person or couple starting out, I gave huge discounts for a Family Package! (I have kept all the spare parts I can too)
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MygunisaS&Wrevolver
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I use my Coleman 425 camp stove for melting lead in the lead pot to make bullets. It is much hotter than propane and really gets the lead flowing. Needless to say, I don't use it for cooking food anymore!
I have two of the red Coleman single mantel lanterns, early 70s models. They still work good and it just wouldn't be camping without hearing the swishing lantern generator noise along with the white gas burn smell.
I have two of the red Coleman single mantel lanterns, early 70s models. They still work good and it just wouldn't be camping without hearing the swishing lantern generator noise along with the white gas burn smell.
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Someone once told me that you could track a wounded animal in the dark with a Coleman lantern because it would make fresh blood (not dried out yet) glow in the dark. Does anyone know if that's actually true? I've always wondered about that one...
