ericjohn
Enlightened
24 years ago today my mom made a HUGE mistake and threw away a very rare Nicholl Brothers lantern.
Let me explain the background behind that story:
You see, it was Halloween and I had just started school. The teachers were telling us to make sure we had a flashlight to go trick or treating. So, I looked (with the help of a chair) in the cabinets of our utility room where my mom kept this lantern and explained that I needed it for Haloween.
Now either the bulb had blown or the battery had died or maybe both, but it didn't work. So my mom threw it away.
I never saw another one again, until maybe 2012 at a hardware store one town away. Unfortunately it wasn't a sale model but a store model.
A few months ago I was doing research on Brinkmann and came across a picture of a light that looked just like the lantern my mom threw away, just a color difference. The model was the Executive and the company was Nicholl Brothers of Kansas City.
The lantern my mom threw away was all yellow with a white rotary switch by the way, but I'm sure it came in other color schemes. There is one on ebay for ~$50 + ~$10 to ship it but it's not the color I had and the price is way to high.
I'm wondering if anyone could tell me any information about this particular model or if anyone has one for sale...
Let me explain the background behind that story:
You see, it was Halloween and I had just started school. The teachers were telling us to make sure we had a flashlight to go trick or treating. So, I looked (with the help of a chair) in the cabinets of our utility room where my mom kept this lantern and explained that I needed it for Haloween.
Now either the bulb had blown or the battery had died or maybe both, but it didn't work. So my mom threw it away.
I never saw another one again, until maybe 2012 at a hardware store one town away. Unfortunately it wasn't a sale model but a store model.
A few months ago I was doing research on Brinkmann and came across a picture of a light that looked just like the lantern my mom threw away, just a color difference. The model was the Executive and the company was Nicholl Brothers of Kansas City.
The lantern my mom threw away was all yellow with a white rotary switch by the way, but I'm sure it came in other color schemes. There is one on ebay for ~$50 + ~$10 to ship it but it's not the color I had and the price is way to high.
I'm wondering if anyone could tell me any information about this particular model or if anyone has one for sale...