Re: No. 2 Blizzard (I finally found one)
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Marck, that's a winglock cone burner, not rising cone. The rising cone has the cone attached to the globe plate, so lifting the globe exposes the burner tube. A superior design allowing direct access to the wick, it was pioneered by Dietz in the 1914 Wizard. According to the 1917 catalog, all the cold blasts were rising cone and i would expect to see it in the 1916-1919 models. However, one of the great mysteries is why Dietz abandoned the rising cone and went back to the winglock cone they had been using since 1909. Their competitors went to the rising cone in the 20's, but Dietz did not return to the rising cone until the streamlines came out in 1937. Your Blizzard probably is one that went to the winglock cone in late 1919, like some of the Wizards I have. My earliest Wizard is M-7-14. Your Blizz is Syracuse if it has no production date. The S numbers apparently did not start until 1920-1921. The MAR-2-16 is not a patent date; the 2 has to be a 7, 14, 21, or 28. It basically shows us production after 1916, but the patent itself is likely irrelevant to the lantern. Dietz changed the patent sets at random on lanterns to mark production runs and the patents themselves usually have nothing to do with the lantern. BB
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