This particular form of lantern from Beistle is hard to find. The yellow cardboard sides and the outline of the JOL in yellow differentiate this lantern from others they produced. I suspect that Beistle found the stiff cardboard sides connected to the two faces with metal clips to be a pain both to produce and to ship. I also suspect that management decided to lose the outline to make the items a tad smaller, maybe to save on shipping. (I don’t know why for sure.) In any event, this is a nice bright example marred only by the inserts.
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