If you can find no trace of any patent numbers on your Little Wizard it was was probably manufactured after 1956 when the practice ceased on all Dietz lanterns, Comets included. Although much of the lantern production moved to Hong Kong in 1956, some lantern production continued here in the U.S. until much later some I read into the early 70's. You will notice also that the streamlined lanterns have patent "numbers" instead of patent "dates" which confuses some people trying to date their lanterns. But they still had Production Date codes stamped on them although the art deco styled beading on the air tubes obliterates them often.
As David has stated the globe is an Embury No.10 and most likely was just what was handy at the time the original got broken. Most contractors and utilities had more than one kind of lanterns in use and used what ever fits as a replacement. Dietz would not have put Embury marked globes in Dietz lanterns, in fact at one point Dietz sold all remaining Embury globes in inventory to a company in New York who crushed them all to be mixed in concrete for building construction. Dietz did continue production of some Embury tooled lanterns and when the parts ran out modified them to use Dietz parts, like the change from the Embury filler and cap on the No.40 Traffic-Gards to a Dietz filler and cap. even though the lantern was Still marked Embury.
Willis
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