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Was up at the whitetail place a week ago, and went shed hunting up and down the creeks on the property. I've done this many times over the past 24 years but stumbled into something I'd been missing all these years. It is very, very dry with little grass, so maybe that made it more visible, not sure........I'm sure the rest of this wagon is underground right there....... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/OEe1o77.jpg) I love stuff like this, so I looked around the site a little, and found this old coleman lantern, Model 242A, half buried...... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/PhGloaK.jpg) Here's up close view of the engraved ring......appears that this is from about 1936... ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/vJSeH3x.jpg)
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Wow, it really is dry! What county is that?
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Cool find ! I have one of the same, only mine is pretty much pristine. My Granddad said they used it quite often when he was a little kid when they lived on a ranch.
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Very cool find JG.
There’s part of an old Model T buried in the creek at the Ranch, that I dig around every once in a while during dry weather.
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Raider, your just across border, know around there well.
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Great find! I really like them old lanterns. Converted this one to run a bulb. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/1t9KpLGv/4904-C98-C-7909-4-F7-D-AFAB-27-C5-BE24421-D-zpsrkq8blvh.jpg)
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Date of mfr is stamped in bottom of fount.
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Great find! I really like them old lanterns. Converted this one to run a bulb. screwed the pooch on that one. It's a burg which were only produced a few months, late 1961 to early 1962. In good, original condition they're worth several hundred dollars.
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JGR, TY for sharing. A friend of mine inherited his GFs property and his work shop/man cave is like a small antique store. I believe he has two of those lanterns sitting on a work bench
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screwed the pooch on that one. It's a burg which were only produced a few months, late 1961 to early 1962. In good, original condition they're worth several hundred dollars. Kept all the parts and didn't drill any holes.
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Place over in the industrial park 4 or 5 yrs ago went out of business.
Coleman stuff maker IIRC.
Probably outsourced to Mexico or buckethead Central....
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I have my grandfather's 242B from 1939.
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I'll probably attempt to restore it and get it working. Why not?
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Cool find. get a metal detector and I bet you'll find a lot of neat stuff.
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