The stove listed above is an Optimus, I carried mine around in my ruck sack for 11 years while I was in the Army, Great stove.
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, that i now use for storage. The lantern has a mfg. date of 11/79.......was full of fuel
. And i had just ran our of gas in my riding mower, mowing around camp
( did not want to drive to town for gas)
.........recycled the fuel in lantern in the lawn mower and finshed mowing grass around camp.
south eastern Coleman gathering at Red Top Mountian state park in GA on sat. night---we got 166 lanterns fired up at one time---too cool ---we had a blast
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south eastern Coleman gathering at Red Top Mountian state park in GA on sat. night---we got 166 lanterns fired up at one time---too cool ---we had a blast
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I have a quite the stash of Coleman stuff. 3 burner stove, 1 med. 2 burner, and 2 sm. 2 burners stoves one of which is a 1/79 production date (birthday 1/8/79). I believe that I have 8 coleman white gas lanterns in different shapes and sizes. We use them for Elk Camp.

Fine with me just as long as you post a link to the articleHey guys I'm writing an article on 'relic camping gear', does anyone mind if I borrow their pics (all credit to you of course). LMK
Fine with me just as long as you post a link to the article![]()