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In addition to the comforting red-orange flickering glow of a campfire, some kind of camping lighting is essential.
These days, the options for camp lighting are many and varied -- from candle lights to fantastic rechargeable solar-powered LED lights, or the much-maligned but ultra-bright LED headlights, which if you're out camping with a group and Somebody is using these headlights, so every time someone looks at you, you're going to get a bright light. Sometimes, when camping with a group, I've gotten into the habit of wearing sunglasses at night around the campfire, and I personally don't use headlights because I have sheer disdain for them.
All my vintage folding candle lights have clear mica windows. The material is actually a clear natural mineral that feels similar to plastic. It's light, fire-resistant, and far less fragile than glass. You may sometimes see transparent materials referred to as "mica" or "talc".
I love the old fashioned folding candle lights. They're compact, inexpensive, and emit enough light to cook, eat, and even read. Overall, they're light enough to take with you camping and hiking.
1970s Swiss Army Folding Lantern
Dating back to the 1970s, this particular Swiss Army Folding Candle Light is wind and rain resistant, and it folds completely flat.
It's designed to work with special sticky candles, but if you use a pair of pliers to gently bend the sides of the spring clip inwards, you'll find that cheap regular household candles fit securely.
Originally in service in the 1920's, these Swiss Lanterns were used by the Swiss Army as EMP resistant camping and camp lighting, and they were also included in Swiss Combat Medical Kits from the 1970's and 80's.
The 1970s Swiss lantern is made of stainless steel and has clear mica windows on all four sides. The way it is assembled is by unfolding it fully, hooking the long sides of the two end panels together to create a rectangular box shape, then swinging the top and bottom panels into place and securing them with the included wire with a lock. One panel of the lantern has a spring door for a candle to be inserted into the spring clip and lit.
They're tough, well designed, very effective, almost completely windproof, can be lightly retrofitted into regular supermarket candles (cut in half), and can last two to three hours on half a candle, depending on the ambient temperature. I'd say they're pretty much the pinnacle of folding candle light design. The only improvements that could be made would probably be an oil burning insert (for use with kerosene, citronella, diesel, maybe even animal fat or used cooking grease), and a hard anodized aluminum or even titanium into the shell.
Are they worth the current price? You will have to make a judgment call. I think they are so good and I've gotten so much use for them.
Can accompany you for a full evening, are they worth it? If stored properly, your children and grandkids will use this lantern.
