Archive category "Countries"

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

Title: 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 to design Dunhill Rollalite (I even can not imagine that it did exactly Dunhill: in the end, was the model Dunhill Handy , other designs, but with the same name). Lighter is made of silvered copper and then - this is the inscription 'S.800' on the mechanism of flint (incidentally, looks and feels like it is entirely silver, but copper yellowness on a shabby corner gives silvering). Generally, the sensations in your hand, it seems like a lighter watch: so all the details fit perfectly and so neatly and securely done (which is 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 history tells us the inscription on the cigarette lighter. It belonged to a team member 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 series ship YMS, they were almost identical in their construction. The latest series YMS ship was in service with the U.S. Navy until November 1969.

YMS-370 was laid on 23 January 1943 at the dock of Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp and launched on August 7 of the same 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 had visited many Asian countries, which are mentioned on this lighter, Philippines, China, Japan, Korea ... In the last two pictures - the ship itself and its team in the last year of service. Someone of the sailors and officers in the picture belonged to this unique and lighter. Who were you, an unknown CDH?

17.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 17 comment (s)

Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910

Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Name: Nassau
Type: Semi-gasoline lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 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 this principle was invented in Austria in 1909. There were many different surface finishes, from simple chrome plating to silver and gold buildings. On this lighter attached emblem of Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance companies mutual benefit, founded in 1877 in Boston; it exists today.

13.07.2010 Tags: , Topics: 1910 , Nassau , USA 18 comment (s)

Lighter Swiza, 1930

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

Small miracle Swiss engineering, rare lighter Swiza 1930s, maybe older brother, and even Pope popular model Dunhill Rollalite :) Mechanic made with amazing thoroughness and clarity, particularly interesting cunning flint replacement mechanism. For replacement must be pulled simultaneously two tiny rychazhochka then flint horizontal vane moves out to the side.

13.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1930 , Swiza , Switzerland 9 comment (s)

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 case: made in Myanmar (formerly Burma). Certainly not all even aware of the existence of such a state! But here's the lighter there - there :)

03.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) 4 comment (s)

IMCO 4300, 1936

Manufacturer: IMCO
Name: IMCO 4300
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1936
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

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

02.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1930 , IMCO , Austria No comments yet

Lighter Hurricane, 1930

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

Hurricane lighters produced in Bradford in the 1930s, at the same time with the Zippo, and their production is completed by the beginning of 1940, unable to withstand the competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More likely to occur in Hurricane copper housings much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is an instance of chrome and even advertising 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-board 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 only 4 times a year - and it is very similar to the truth :)

13.06.2010 Tags: , Topics: 1940 , The Giant , USA No comments yet

Table lighter Jumbo, 1950

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

13.06.2010 Tags: , Categories: 1950 , Jumbo , Japan No comments yet

Table lighter Swank, 1950

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

Such lighters were produced 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 me was impossible :) The second picture to zoom standing next regular lighter Zippo.

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

Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890

Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Title: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: gasoline lighter Pistone
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, before the invention of flint. Spark it made a special tape with fulminate Pistone (rattlesnake acid salts), and with it ignited gasoline soaked wick.

12.06.2010 Tags: , Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comment (s)

Gilded 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

12.06.2010 Метки: , , Рубрики: 1930 , Segalock , США No comments yet

Lighter in the form of a gas station, 1960

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

Typical Japanese zazhigalochnoe creativity 1960s - a huge table lighter in the form of gasoline gas station (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 around half a meter in length), push it into 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 (s)

Butane Lighter Flaminaire, 1959

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

One of the first models of handheld gas lighters used replacement gas blocks Butabloc. 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 (s)

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 improved in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, besides the usual cotton wick fitted thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. When bending body lighted tube is heated flame lighters conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert also heat up, expand and rush outside, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube opening. On leaving they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' side flame, with which conveniently puff tube. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.

06.06.2010 Tags: , , Topics: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 9 comment (s)

Electronic table lighter Rowenta, 1960

Manufacturer: Rowenta
Title: Rowenta Electronic
Type: desktop electronic gas lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Germany
Approximate cost: $ 20-50

One of the first electronic lighters, running on battery, the classical model of the German company Rowenta. Equipped with a condenser, by which a valve was given a spark when you press the button while you press the button the valve opens.

24.05.2010 Метки: , , , Рубрики: 1960 , Rowenta , Германия 3 comment (s)