A question was asked of me of which Canadians had gray felt. This is the list that I have acumalated so far and I thought I would share it with you all. (You all is southern for yen guys).

The candian BURROWS ISLAND
The canadian Admirily Head
The Canadian Hatteras CH-2
The Canadian Sandy Hook
The Canadian Old Point Loma
The Canadian Old Mackinack
The Canadian Cana Island
The Canadian Michigan City
The Canadian Grosse Point
The Canadian Whaleback
The Canadian Minot's Ledge

Oh my GOSH! More Variations!

"Admirily" Head! and
Old "Mackinack"

LOL The RUSH will be on to find more of those! (Just kidding, Daniel.)

The gray felt came from Harbour Lights. As I remember Kim telling it, they used felt found for the bottom of table lamp bases. And when production was shifted to Castle Studios, they shipped the left-over felt along with the master mold.

There were two kinds of gray felt used - I'm not sure if both were sent to Ontario or if Castle Studios bought the second kind after running out of what HL had sent them.

It would be interesteding to know whether the revisions of the molds coincided with the shift to the 'flocked' bottoms.

So for the person really interested in variations:

Made in Southern CA (all probably gray felt bottom)
Made in Ontario without the mold modifications with gray felt
Same but flocked
Made in Ontario WITH mold modiciations with gray felt?
Same but flocked?
etc.

Note, I'm not saying each of the above exists, just that it could.

I have a Canadian Portland Head, ME with gray felt and an AP of Great Captain Island, CT with gray felt but I believe the GCI is Californian.

Daniel, my Canadian Grosse Point is #1046 and they had already switched to the green felt by that number, if that helps your tracking.

Thanks Jim
That helps.
Got a lot of holes yet in logging in the color felt.
Since sellers on ebay are showing pictures of the felt it makes it a lot easier now.
I use to ask the seller a list of questions, relying on the seller to give me an accurate description. Now with pictures I can determine myself how to catalogue the lighthouse.
I even started logging in what type of Canadian sticker the Lighthouse has.


Rock

The Great Captain AP is definitely all California. I have not found any Great Captain Island “Made In Canada” with a gray felt.

The Portland head would be the Canadian flocked gray felt. Since you mentioned it I think I have one too. Will have to check some day. For all the listing I have done for ebay I forgot to even catalogue my own collection when it comes to what color felt they have.

Daniel,

I have three pieces with gray felt:
* an "AP" HL108 Burrows mispelled "OR" / thin
felt / would be a California piece
* a HL118 Old Mackinac Canadian w/rod #1072 /
thick felt
* a HL129 Canadian w/rod New London
Ledge "green water", #697 / thick felt

Dan

Elmer
Congratulations on an awesome find.
Have Bill Younger check your 108 AP
You may have one of the original painted secondary generation molds that was first produced for the younger family to review and use for making the pictures on the first brochure.
The way to tell is by the paint style. The Younger Family hired an artist in California to paint the first 17 AP's. After that Tori Dawn painted the AP samples up to and including the southern Bells. I believe the way that you could tell one of Tori Dawns original two Artist proofs was that she wrote under it “Paint Sample”