May be of the Pinch Pot or the Drop Bell style. A fount which can be removed from the bottom of the lantern by pinching a pair of spring clips or twisting the pot. This design is characteristic of whale oil and older signal oil lanterns. May also be called a Pinch Pot. Contemporary etching was done either by sandblasting or by Hydrofluoric acid, and has a very smooth feel.
Most modern counterfeits are vibro-etched and the letters feel very rough.
See Cemented Globe Lantern. A globe with a very thin layer of colored glass outside a regular clear globe. This was a technique for fabricating colored globes prior to the invention of inexpensive processes for the manufacture of colored glass. See also Cased Globe . In most railroad applications the burner is mounted on the fount, and some collectors refer to any portion of the lantern which contains the reservoir as the fount.