Lighter Handy, 1940, belonged to a team member minesweeper YMS-370

Title: Handy
Type: Gas Lighter
Material: copper, silver plated
Year: 1940
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 30-100

Lighters with the history of war are fairly common, but this - one of the most interesting findings. A Swiss Lighter Handy, almost completely analogous Dunhill Rollalite in design (I can even imagine that it did exactly Dunhill: after all, was the model Dunhill Handy , a different design, but with the same name). Lighter is made of silvered copper and then - this is the inscription 'S.800' on the mechanism of silicon (by the way, looks and feels like it is completely silver, but copper on yellow shabby corner produces silver plated). In general, the sensations in your hand, it seems like a lighter watch: so perfectly fit all the details and so neatly and safely done (which is to be expected for Swiss products :). Cover when opening a spring leans just as good as new, and this despite the fact that the lighter at least 70 years!

But we are told the story of the inscriptions on the lighter. It belonged to a team member minesweeper YMS-370. The history of this ship is quite short. Ships series YMS (Auxiliary Mine Sweeper) were so small (displacement was only 270 tons), which had no name - only number. Only in 1941 the ship was built 481 series YMS, they were almost identical in their construction. The latest series of YMS ship was in service with the U.S. Navy until November 1969.

YMS-370 was laid on January 23, 1943 at the dock of Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp and launched on August 7 of that year. After serving only 3 years, it was decommissioned 19 June 1946 and finally sawed for scrap in 1948. But within a short time of service, he has visited many Asian countries, which are mentioned in this lighter: Philippines, China, Japan, Korea ... The last two photographs - the ship itself and his team in the last year of service. To some of these officers and men in the photo belonged to this unique and lighter. Who were you, an unknown CDH?

07/17/2010 Tags: Topics: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 17 comment (s)

Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910

Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Name: Nassau
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper
Release year: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200

Nassau lighters produced in New York, in Nassau street, in 1910 (although the patent by 1905.) It was one of the first automatic pocket lighters that time, the mechanism of action of this principle was invented in Austria in 1909. There were many options for finishing the body, from the simple to the chrome silver and gold buildings. On this lighter attached company logo Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance companies mutual benefit, founded in 1877 in Boston, it exists today.

07/13/2010 Tags: , Topics: 1910 , Nassau , USA 13 comment (s)

Lighter Swiza, 1930

Title: Swiza
Type: Gas Lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1930
Country: Switzerland
Average price: $ 20-50

Small wonder the Swiss engineering, rare lighter Swiza 1930, maybe an older brother, and even Pope popular model Dunhill Rollalite :) Mechanic done with amazing accuracy and clarity, particularly interesting cunning mechanism replacement flint. To replace the need to pull together the two tiny rychazhochka then flint horizontal vane moves out of the way.

07/13/2010 Tags: Topics: 1930 , Swiza , Switzerland 6 comment (s)

Lighter Cooperative from Myanmar, 1940-1950

Title: Cooperative
Type: Gas Lighter
Material: copper
Year: 1940-1950 (?)
Country: Myanmar (Burma)
Average price: $ 10-20

Very amusing lighter. At first glance, it would have gone to 100% for the English, if not stamped on the bottom of the case: made in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Not everybody even know of the existence of such a state! But that's lighter then - there :)

03/07/2010 Tags: Topics: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) 4 comment (s)

IMCO 4300, 1936

Manufacturer: IMCO
Name: IMCO 4300
Type: Gas Lighter
Material: copper
Year: 1936
Country: Austria
Average price: $ 15-30

The first model with a removable lid Imco - design simplicity itself, compared to other models of the time it looks very primitive, yet still quite working and reliable.

02/07/2010 Tags: Topics: 1930 , IMCO , Austria No comments

Lighter Hurricane, 1930

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

Hurricane lighters manufactured in Bradford in 1930, the time of the Zippo, and production ended in the beginning of 1940, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More common in the Hurricane brass body, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is another instance of chrome and promotional label that rarely twice.

13/06/2010 Tags: , Topics: 1930 , Hurricane , USA 9 comment (s)

Table Lighter The Giant, 1946

Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: semi-automatic petrol table lighter
Material: copper, brass
Release year: 1946
Country: United States
Average price: $ 25-70

The log advertisement in 1946, argued that the lighter The Giant enough fill only 4 times a year - and this is very similar to the truth :)

13/06/2010 Tags: , Topics: 1940 , The Giant , USA No comments

Table Lighter KW, 1940

Manufacturer: Karl Wieden
Name: KW
Type: semi-automatic petrol table lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: Germany
Average price: $ 30-80

13/06/2010 Tags: , , Categories: News 16 comment (s)

Table Lighter Kartro, 1940

Title: Kartro
Type: semi-automatic petrol table lighter
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country:?
Average price: $ 30-80

13/06/2010 Tags: , Topics: 1940 , Kartro No comments

Table Lighter Jumbo, 1950

Name: Jumbo
Type: Desktop petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Average price: $ 30-80

13/06/2010 Tags: , Topics: 1950 , Jumbo , Japan No comments

Table Lighter Swank, 1950

Title: Swank
Type: Desktop petrol lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Average price: $ 20-80

These lighters are made in Japan in the 1950s and used as a desktop in cafes and bars - because of the size and weight of giant accidentally carry it with him was impossible :) The second photo for scale next is the usual lighter Zippo.

13/06/2010 4 comment (s)

Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890

Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Title: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: petrol lighter pistons
Material: copper, brass
Release year: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250

This is a unique instance of the - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, before the invention of the flint. Spark in her to do custom pistons tape with fulminate (rattlesnake acid salts), and use it to set on fire with gasoline soaked wick.

06/12/2010 Tags: , Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comment (s)

Gilded lighter Segalock in ostrich skin, 1930

Title: Segalock
Type: Gas Lighter
Material: copper, gold plated, ostrich leather
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Average price: $ 30-80

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Lighter in the form of a gas station, 1960

Type: Desktop petrol lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 50-100

Zazhigalochnoe typical Japanese art of the 1960s - a huge table lighter in the form of petrol filling stations (Zippo next set to scale.) For lighting of it must be removed from the side vent wick holder (it is attached to the pull-out rubber band about two feet long), stick it in the hole at the top next to the wheel and there is a spark to ignite the fuse.

06/12/2010 Tags: , Categories: 1960 , Untitled , Japan 7 comment (s)

Gas lighter Flaminaire, 1959

Title: Flaminaire Galet
Type: gas lighter with a removable gas block Butabloc
Material: brass, copper, leather
Release year: 1959
Country: France
Average price: $ 15-50

One of the first models of pocket gas lighter, gas use interchangeable blocks Butabloc. French firm Flaminaire first ever released to the mass market gas lighter (desktop model Flaminaire Gentry) in 1947.

06/06/2010 Tags: , Filed under: 1950 , Flaminaire , France 6 comment (s)