Archive of category "United States"
Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910
Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Name: Nassau
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200
The lighters were made in Nassau, New York, in Nassau street, since 1910 (although the patent given in 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 options for finishing the body, from the simple to the chrome plating of silver and gold shells. On this lighter is attached company logo Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance mutual benefit societies, founded in 1877 in Boston, it is there today.
07/13/2010 
Tags: semi-automatic , fliptopy Filed under: 1910 , Nassau , United States 
13 comment (-s)
Lighter Hurricane, 1930
Title: Hurricane
Type: windproof petrol 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 the Zippo, and their production over to the beginning of the 1940s, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More common in copper Hurricane buildings, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is another instance of chrome and advertising label, which is rarely double.
13/06/2010 Tags: wind-proof , fliptopy Filed under: 1930 , Hurricane , United States 9 comment (-s)
Table Lighter The Giant, 1946
Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1946
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-70
The log advertisement in 1946 claimed that the lighter The Giant quite fill the entire four times a year - and this is very similar to the truth :)
13/06/2010 Tags: desktop , semi Filed under: 1940 , The Giant , United States No Comments
Reliable Pocket Lamp, 1890
Manufacturer: Henry W. Maybaum
Title: Reliable Pocket Lamp
Type: Gasoline Lighter pistons
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250
This is a unique specimen - one of the world's first pocket lighter, patented in 1890, before the invention of flint. Spark made it special caps with tape fulminate (fulminate salts of acids), and with it ignited gasoline soaked wick.
06/12/2010 Tags: without a flint , percussion caps Categories: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , U.S. 8 comment (-s)
Gold-plated lighter in ostrich skin Segalock, 1930
Title: Segalock
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, gold plated, ostrich skin
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 30-80
Pipe Lighter Beattie Jet, 1940
Name: Beattie Jet
Type: gasoline pipe jet lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-100
Pipe petrol lighter with the construction of 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and upgraded in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter than conventional cotton wick, is equipped with a thin hollow copper tube, which passes through the insert, and a cotton filler. With a light body tilt tube is heated lighters lit the flame of an ordinary wick, petrol fumes inside the insert and heat, expand and rush out, struggling under the pressure of a thin tube holes. At the exit, they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' lateral flame that lets you puff up. Beattie Jet - the most common and well known model of 'reactive' petrol lighters mid-20th century.
06/06/2010 Tags: liftarmy , reactive , Pipe Filed under: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 7 comment (-s)
Lighter Century, 1942-1945
Title: Century
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: Steel
Year: 1942-1945
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 15-50
Lighter Century - a typical fliptop the Second World War, produced for the U.S. Army. It was made of steel and covered with a coating characteristic crackle green or brownish-gray color. Some specimens have labels CENTURY and USA on the windshield, and some do not have any labels.
The last instance is particularly interesting, and keeps the spirit of its former owner, an American soldier or officer who scratched his name on the body of his beloved: «MY ETHEL DEAR».
19/05/2010 Tags: wind-proof , fliptopy Filed under: 1940 , Century , United States No Comments
Dunhill Service Lighter, 1943-1945
Name: Dunhill Service Lighter
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1943-1945
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-100
This lighter was produced in the U.S. under the brand Dunhill during the Second World War and was designed specifically for the U.S. Army.
19/05/2010 Tags: wind- Categories: 1940 , Dunhill , USA 2 comment (-s)
Douglass Wadsworth, 1926
Producer: Douglass
Name: Douglass Wadsworth
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass, gold-plated
Year: 1926
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 200-400
Strikalite glass lighter, 1940
Manufacturer: Strikalite Ltd
Title: Strikalite
Type: Table Lighter gasoline
Material: glass, copper, brass, cobalt paint
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
04/27/2010 Tags: desktop , with a removable lid , glass Filed under: 1940 , Strikalite , USA 2 comment (-s)
Negbaur, 1940
Manufacturer: Negbaur
Title: Negbaur Cannon Lighter
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper-lead alloy
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 40-75
Cigarette case Evans, 1950
Name: Evans
Type: automatic petrol lighter with cigarette case
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 10-25
18/04/2010 Tags: automatic , with a cigarette case Filed under: 1950 , Evans , United States No Comments
Gray, 1930
Title: Gray
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: late 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 10-25
18/04/2010 Tags: liftarmy Filed under: 1930 , Gray , United States No Comments
Cigarette case Evans, 1940
Name: Evans
Type: automatic petrol lighter with cigarette case
Material: Copper
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-40
18/04/2010 Tags: automatic , with a cigarette case Filed under: 1940 , Evans , United States No Comments
Evans Trig-a-Lite cigarette case, 1932
Manufacturer: Evans
Name: Evans Trig-a-Lite cigarette case
Type: automatic petrol lighter with cigarette case
Material: Copper
Year: 1932
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 50-100
18/04/2010 Tags: automatic , with a cigarette case Filed under: 1930 , Evans , United States No Comments
