Lighter Handy, 1940, owned by members of the team minesweeper YMS-370

Name: Handy
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, silver plated
Year: 1940
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 30-100

Lighters with wartime history are fairly common, but this - one of the most interesting findings. This Swiss Lighter Handy, almost completely analogous Dunhill Rollalite by design (I can even assume that it did exactly Dunhill: in the end, was the model Dunhill Handy , 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 she is completely silver, but copper yellowness on shabby corner gives silvering). In general, the feelings in your hand, it seems like a lighter watch: so perfectly fit all the details and so accurately and reliably all done (which is to be expected for the Swiss products :). When you open the lid tilts a spring just as good as new, and this despite the fact that the lighter at least 70 years!

But history tells us inscriptions on the lighter. It belonged to a member of the team minesweeper YMS-370. The history of this ship is quite brief. Ships Series YMS (Auxiliary Mine Sweeper) were so small (displacement was only 270 tons), which had no name - only a serial number. Total in 1941 was built 481 ship series YMS, they were almost identical in their construction. The most recent series of YMS ship was in service with the US Navy until November 1969.

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

17-07-2010 Tags: Categories: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 17 comment (-ev)

Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910

Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Title: Nassau
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper
Year of release: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200

Nassau lighters produced in New York, on Nassau street, since 1910 (although Pat Set 1905). It was one of the first automatic pocket lighters that time, the mechanism of action of such a principle was invented in Austria in 1909. There were many choices of finishes, from simple chrome plating to silver and gold cases. This lighter is attached company logo Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance companies mutual benefit, founded in 1877 in Boston; it exists today.

13.07.2010 Tags: , Categories: 1910 , Nassau , United States 18 comment (-ev)

Lighter Swiza, 1930

Title: Swiza
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1930
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 20-50

Little wonder the Swiss engineering, rare lighter Swiza 1930s, maybe an older brother, and even the pope popular model Dunhill Rollalite :) Mechanics made with amazing thoroughness and clarity, particularly interesting cunning mechanism replacement flint. For replacement must be pulled simultaneously two tiny rychazhochka, then the horizontal vane moves out of flint aside.

13.07.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930 , Swiza , Switzerland 9 comment (-ev)

Lighter Cooperative from Myanmar, 1940-1950

Title: Cooperative
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper
Year: 1940-1950 (?)
Country: Myanmar (Burma)
Approximate cost: $ 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 housing: made in Myanmar (ex. Burma). Surely not all even know about the existence of such a state! But that's lighter there - there :)

03.07.2010 Tags: Categories: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) 4 comment (-ev)

IMCO 4300 1936

Manufacturer: IMCO
Title: IMCO 4300
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper
Year of release: 1936
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

The first model with removable lid Imco - design easier to nowhere; compared to other models of the time it looks quite primitive, but at the same time remains quite working and reliable.

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Lighter Hurricane, 1930

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

Hurricane lighters manufactured in Bradford in 1930, at the same time with a Zippo, and their production ended by the beginning of 1940, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More common in Hurricane brass body, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is an instance of chrome and more 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 desktop 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 this is very similar to the truth :)

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Table lighter KW, 1940

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

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Table lighter Kartro, 1940

Title: Kartro
Type: semi-automatic desktop 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

These lighters were made in Japan in the 1950s and used as a desktop in cafes and bars - due to giant size and weight casually carry it with me was impossible :) On the second photo to zoom standing next regular Lighter Zippo.

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Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890

Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Name: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: gasoline lighter pistons
Material: copper, brass
Year of release: 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 flint. Spark in it made a special tape to fulminate Pistone (rattlesnake acid salts), and with its help ignited gasoline soaked wick.

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

Gold-plated lighter Segalock in ostrich skin, 1930

Title: Segalock
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, gold-plated, 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 1960s - a huge table in the form of gasoline lighter gas station (Zippo next set to scale). For lighting of it must be removed from the lateral opening wick holder (it is attached to the pull-out rubber band about two feet long), stick it in the hole in the upper part near the wheel and there ignite the wick spark.

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 block Butabloc
Material: brass, copper, leather
Year of release: 1959
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 15-50

One of the first models of handheld gas lighter has used replacement gas blocks Butabloc. The French firm Flaminaire first ever released to the mass market gas lighter (desktop model Flaminaire Gentry) in 1947.

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