One is marked "No. 100 S.G.; RICHARDS & CONOVER HDW CO".
The others are marked "SHORT GLOBE RICH-CON; RICHARDS & CONOVER HDW CO".
These lanterns match exactly the Defiance lanterns marked "No 2 TRIUMPH".
I just noticed that the Defiance "BEST-EVR" marked globe and the "RICH-CON" marked globe are both in quotation marks as I have done here, unusual coincidence.
Must be a Defiance made lantern. Dating it would be hard as I see no changes in catalog cuts from start to finish, but you could narrow it down to when the D-Lite size globe was introduced around 1913 to when Embury bought Defiance in 1930. There's very limited information available on Defiance. The No 2 Triumph is shown in the Defiance 1919, 1921, & 1924 catalogs and looks exactly like your No 100 SG. I have not seen a catalog after 1924 to see how long the No 2 Triumph was continued.
John M
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