Archive for April 2010

Rogers Rocket Flame, 1958

Manufacturer: Rogers
Name: Rogers Rocket Flame
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-40

Pipe Lighter with gasoline design 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and enhanced in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, apart from the usual cotton wick it has a thin hollow copper tube which passes through the insert and a cotton filler. When a light tilting body lighted tube is heated by the flame of a lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes and heat inside the insert, expand and rush outside, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube opening. On the way out they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' side flame, through which user-friendly lighting his pipe. Beattie Jet - the most common model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century, the other brands like the Japanese Lighter Rogers, are much rarer.

18.04.2010 Метки: , , , Рубрики: 1950 , Rogers , Япония 2 comment (-ev)

Gray, 1930

Title: Gray
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: end of 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 10-25

18.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, Gray, United States No comments

Cigarette Evans, 1940

Name: Evans
Type: automatic petrol lighter with cigarette case
Material: Copper
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-40

18.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, Evans, United States No comments

Evans Trig-a-Lite cigarette case, 1932

Manufacturer: Evans
Name: Evans Trig-a-Lite cigarette case
Type: automatic petrol lighter with cigarette case
Material: Copper
Year: 1932
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 50-100

18.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, Evans, United States No comments

ST Dupont, 1940-1945

Name: ST Dupont
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1940-45
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 150-300

14.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, ST Dupont, France 4 comment (-ev)

ST Dupont Utility Lighter, 1938

Name: ST Dupont
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1938
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 150-250

14.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, ST Dupont, France No comments

Kablo, 1940

Title: Kablo
Type: automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: Czechoslovakia
Approximate cost: $ 10-20

14.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, Kablo, Czechoslovakia One comment

Lighter time of the First World War, 1915-1920

Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1915
Country: Austria (?)
Approximate cost: $ 20-40

WW1 trench lighter, 1915-1920

14.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1910, Austria, Untitled 3 comment (-ev)

TCW Welsbach Ready, 1930

Manufacturer: TCW Welsbach
Title: Ready
Type: automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

13.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, Ready, Austria 5 comment (-ev)

KB Fork, 1930

Manufacturer: KB
Name: KB Fork
Type: Semi-automatic lighter gasoline
Material: Copper
Year: 1930
Country: Czechoslovakia
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

13.04.2010 Tags: 1930, KB, Czechoslovakia No comments

KB Majak, 1930

Manufacturer: KB
Name: KB Majak
Type: automatic petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1930
Country: Czechoslovakia
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

13.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, KB, Czechoslovakia No comments

Marathon liftarm, 1945

Title: Marathon
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 200-300

12.04.2010 Метки: , , Рубрики: 1940 , Marathon , США 2 comment (-ev)

Super-Snap, 1930

Title: Super-Snap
Type: Semi-automatic lighter gasoline
Material: copper, celluloid
Year: 1930
Country: France (?)
Approximate cost: $ 50-130

12.04.2010 Tags: 1930, Super-Snap, France 2 comment (-ev)

Liftarm KB in snakeskin 1925

Name: KB
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper snake skin
Year: 1925
Country: Czechoslovakia
Approximate cost: $ 30-60

12.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1920, KB, Czechoslovakia No comments

Table Lighter Mylflam, 1946

Title: Mylflam
Type: semi-automatic table gasoline lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1946
Country: Germany
Approximate cost: $ 50-120

12.04.2010 Метки: , Рубрики: 1940 , Mylflam , Германия No comments