Coleman Quick-Lite Brass Table Lamp with Brass Pump, 1920s View Watchlist >
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Lot # F1041
System ID # 29754554
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Coleman Quick-Lite Brass Table Lamp with Brass Pump, 1920s
An early Coleman Quick-Lite pressure lamp by The Coleman Lamp Co., Wichita, Kansas, with a spun brass fount, cast-iron filler neck, and japanned black collar. The fount carries the embossed "COLEMAN QUICK-LITE" maker's mark with the Wichita, Kansas address. A brass twin-mantle generator assembly rises from the fount, capped by a black ventilated burner cap fitted with mantle posts and a wire mantle guard, with a wrought-iron hanging hook arching overhead for ceiling or pole suspension.
Coleman introduced the Quick-Lite line in 1919, and the design dominated rural American lighting through the 1920s before electrification reached the farms and ranches of the West. These naphtha-fueled lamps burned bright white from a pressurized fount built up by hand pump — the separate brass air pump with its turned black knob accompanies this lot. A practical relic of pre-grid lighting, equally at home as a working conversation piece or a study in early American industrial brass.
CONDITION
Good. The brass fount shows scuffing, denting, finish wear, and tarnish consistent with age and use; the black collar and burner assembly show paint loss and surface wear. Comes as shown with the brass puffer pump. Untested.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 26 1/2" H × 8" Diameter
- Puffer Pump: 7" L × 1" Diameter
- Maker: The Coleman Lamp Co., Wichita, Kansas
- Campbell's Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale — Not Included
