Archive for June 2010

Lighter Hurricane, 1930

Title: Hurricane
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-80

Lighters Hurricane produced in Bradford in 1930, at the same time a Zippo, and production ended in the beginning of 1940, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. Most often found in copper Hurricane cases, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is an instance of chrome, and even advertising label that is doubly rare.

13.06.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, Hurricane, United States 9 comment (-ev)

Table Lighter The Giant, 1946

Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: semi-automatic table gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1946
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-70

The log advertisement in 1946 claimed that the lighter The Giant enough to fill a total of 4 times a year - and it is very similar to the truth :)

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Table Lighter KW, 1940

Manufacturer: Karl Wieden
Name: KW
Type: semi-automatic table gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: Germany
Approximate cost: $ 30-80

13.06.2010 Tags: Categories: News 21 comment (-ev)

Table Lighter Kartro, 1940

Title: Kartro
Type: semi-automatic table gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country:?
Approximate cost: $ 30-80

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Table Lighter Jumbo, 1950

Title: Jumbo
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 30-80

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Table Lighter Swank, 1950

Name: Swank
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 20-80

Such lighters were made in Japan in the 1950s and used as a table in a cafe and bars - because of the huge sizes and weight casually carry it with him was impossible :) The second picture is for scale next to the usual lighter Zippo.

13.06.2010 Метки: , , Рубрики: 1950 , Swank , Япония 4 comment (-ev)

Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890

Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Name: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: gasoline lighter pistons
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250

This is a unique instance - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, even before the invention of the flint. Iskra made it a special tape to fulminate Pistone (rattlesnake acid salts), and with its help was ignited by a wick soaked with gasoline.

12.06.2010 Tags: Categories: 1890, Pocket Lamp, USA 8 comment (-ev)

Gilded Lighter Segalock in ostrich skin 1930

Title: Segalock
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, gilding, ostrich leather
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 30-80

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Lighter in the form of a gas station, 1960

Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 50-100

Typical Japanese zazhigalochnoe creativity 1960 - a huge table in the form of gasoline lighter gas station (Zippo next set to scale). For lighting of it need to be removed from the lateral holes wick holder (it is attached to the pull-out rubber band about half a meter long), stick it in the hole in the upper part near the wheel and there is a spark to ignite the wick.

12.06.2010 Tags: Categories: 1960, Untitled, Japan 7 comment (-ev)

Butane Lighter Flaminaire, 1959

Title: Flaminaire Galet
Type: gas lighter with a removable gas unit Butabloc
Material: brass, copper, leather
Year: 1959
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 15-50

One of the first models of handheld gas lighter, gas use interchangeable blocks Butabloc. The French firm Flaminaire first ever produced for the mass market gas lighter (desktop model Flaminaire Gentry) in 1947.

06-06-2010 Tags: Categories: 1950, Flaminaire, France 10 comment (-ev)

Pipe Lighter Beattie Jet, 1940

Name: Beattie Jet
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-100

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 and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.

06-06-2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, Beattie Jet, United States 9 comment (-ev)