Selected Globes

This page is for selected unusual manufacturer’s globes to assist with identification.

COLEMAN GLOBES

The following four globes are part of a collection of globes on Canadian lanterns between 1938 and 1946. The green colored Coleman Sunshine logo globes shown here are part numbers 550 and 660 but worth noting is that a collector from Quebec recently found the same green markings on a 330 globe. The green marked globes generally have the word PYREX in green on the back of the globe.

Coleman 236 (Canada D 38)
Pyrex Made in England 660 Bulge Globe

From the collection of Agostino Del Coro.

Coleman 236 (Canada C 39)
Pyrex Green Sunshine Logo 660 Bulge Globe

From the collection of Agostino Del Coro.

Coleman 236 (Canada 1944)
Pyrex Green Sunshine Logo 660 Bulge Globe

From the collection of Agostino Del Coro.

Coleman (Last quarter) 1939 Canadian 242B
Pyrex Green Sunshine Logo 550 Bulge Globe

From the collection of Agostino Del Coro.

It should be noted too that though Coleman started offering Pyrex globes around 1930, mica globes were still popular being cheaper.

The Coleman 355 Pyrex glass globe was used on a variety of Coleman table lamps. Sometimes they were used alone to protect the mantle(s) and at other times in conjunction with and for the protection of a shade. The common or standard 355 globe has an opening (about 75 mm) at the narrowest part of the top and similarly at the bottom (about 87 mm).

An ‘Export’ version of the Coleman 355 globe has a full opening at the bottom (about 123 mm) but is otherwise the same as the standard. The ‘Export’ version was featured in the 1949-50 C J Thomas (Australian Coleman retailer) catalog.

The Coleman Pyrex markings on both 355 globe versions are the same. The 355 globe appears to have been used from around the mid-thirties through to the late forties or early fifties.

The 355 globes were advertised for the 1935 and 1936 lamps. This globe, with a height of 177 mm is taller than many later 355 globes. It is in Anthony Trueman’s collection and features the green Sunshine logo which may date this globe back to the 1930s.

This embossed Coleman 550 Pyrex globe is remarkably undamaged. Some are also embossed Made in U.S.A. on the back; this one, in Jay Lesovsky’s collection is not. These globes are not common and the ones we are aware of are all cracked or missing a piece of glass in nearly the same place and pattern on the upper right. Some have been found on Coleman 242B lanterns but this one accompanied a Coleman 242A.