Cementing my coot status, a loooong time back REI sold three styles of candle lanterns: Aluminum and mica box-style ones that folded flat--they might have been Swedish but I can't recall, French glass and aluminum collapsable ones with spring feed candle (the genesis of the UCO design) and a Japanese glass and aluminum tea candle light. The OP seems to be describing that last one. I think I still have my French one in a box somewhere.

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We just had this discussion two weeks ago. I'm not sure what you mean by flip open top, but the ones we were talking about are the UCO designed lanterns that telescope up out of the base.

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