Archive category "Japan"

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.

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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)

Lighter Chadwick with calendar, calculator, 1950

Name: Chadwick
Type: automatic petrol lighter with calendar and calculator aviation
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 25-50

Lighter with "eternal" in the 1950-1977 calendar years, and with a mechanical calculator to calculate the ground speed of the aircraft. Produced in Japan from the 1950s, and known instances of the late 1970s. Apparently intended primarily for aircraft pilots :)

24.05.2010 Tags: Categories: 1950, Chadwick, Japan 2 comment (-ev)

Lighter in a vehicle, Japan, 1940

Type: gasoline lighter reading a car
Material: Brass
Year: 1940
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 80-150

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Table set Brother-Lite, 1940

Title: Brother-Lite
Type: Table set: gasoline lighter, ashtray, Front
Material: brass, plastic, leather
Year: 1940
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 40-75

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Rogers Rocket Flame, 1958

Manufacturer: Rogers
Name: Rogers Rocket Flame
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-40

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 model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century, the other brands like the Japanese Lighter Rogers, are much rarer.

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Pack Mate, 1960

Manufacturer: Riesco Co.
Title: Pack Mate
Type: automatic petrol lighter, designed to fit over the end of a cigarette pack
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1960
Country: Japan / USA
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

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Supreme, 1960

Title: Supreme
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass, Murano glass
Year: 1960
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 40-80

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Hadson Blue Bird, 1950

Manufacturer: Hadson
Title: Hadson Blue Bird
Type: music gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 30-100

This is one of the very popular in the 1950s, the Japanese musical lighters Hadson. It is arranged quite interesting: the mechanism, located inside the plant and is equipped with a stopper (lever at the top of the winding key). At the same time when you press the ignition of the insert extends the pin, which removes the musical mechanism with stopper - so if you have a factory in the mechanism, the melody starts to play itself with ignition flame. Self musical mechanism is spring loaded metal plate which rests against the inside of the housing. The housing is made of relatively lightweight alloy and is like a resonator for the music box - the lighter the volume is large enough (and the mechanism separately, being removed from the body, it plays a very quiet).

Of particular value to this instance gives also engraved: it belonged to an officer with the US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, and not just an officer, and a member of the officers' club.

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Cygnus, 1960

Title: Cygnus
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: Aluminum
Year: 1960
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 20-50

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Cygnus Penguin, 1950

Manufacturer: Cygnus
Title: Cygnus Penguin
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Aluminum
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-25

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Cygnus, 1950

Title: Cygnus
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: Aluminum
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-50

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