Archive category "Countries"

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 finds. This Swiss Lighter Handy, almost completely similar Dunhill Rollalite by design (I can even assume that it did exactly Dunhill: in the end, was a model of Dunhill Handy, a different design, but with the same name). Lighter is made of silvered copper and then - it says the inscription 'S.800' flint on the mechanism (by the way, it looks and feels like a completely silver but copper yellowness at shabby corner produces silvering). Generally, the sensations in the 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 :). 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 inscription on the lighter. It belonged to a member of the team 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) that had no names - only the serial number. Total in 1941 was built the ship 481 series YMS, they were practically identical in their construction. The latest 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 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 in a short time, he managed to get service in many Asian countries, which are referred to in 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 lighter gasoline
Material: Copper
Year: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200

Lighters Nassau made in New York on Nassau street, since 1910 (although patent 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 choices of finishes, from simple chrome plating to gold and silver shells. This lighter is 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: 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

Small wonder the Swiss engineering, rare Lighter Swiza 1930s, maybe an older brother, and even the pope popular model Dunhill Rollalite :) Mechanics made with astonishing thoroughness and clarity, particularly interesting cunning mechanism replacing the flint. To replace, simultaneously pull the two tiny rychazhochka then flint horizontal vane moves out of the way.

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

Lighter Cooperative Myanmar, 1940-1950

Title: Cooperative
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1940-1950 (?)
Country: Myanmar (Burma)
Approximate cost: $ 10-20

Very entertaining 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 (formerly. Burma). Surely not all even know about the existence of such a state! But lighter there - there :)

03.07.2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, Untitled, Myanmar (Burma) 5 comment (-ev)

IMCO 4300 1936

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

The first of the models 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.

02.07.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, IMCO, Austria no comments

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 :)

13.06.2010 Tags: 1940, The Giant, United States no comments

Table Lighter Jumbo, 1950

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

13.06.2010 Tags: Categories: 1950, Jumbo, Japan no comments

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

12.06.2010 Метки: , , Рубрики: 1930 , Segalock , США no comments

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)

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 cigarette lighters, powered by batteries, the classical model of the German firm Rowenta. Equipped with a capacitor by which a valve was given a spark when you press the button while you press the button the valve is opened.

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