Tag Archive "U.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: semi , fliptopy Topics: 1910 , Nassau , USA 
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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: windproof , fliptopy 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: desktop , semi Topics: 1940 , The Giant , USA No comments yet
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: without flint , Pistone 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: кожаные , лифтармы , позолоченные Рубрики: 1930 , Segalock , США No comments yet
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: liftarmy , reactive , The tubing Topics: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 9 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 - typical fliptop World War II, was produced for the U.S. Army. It was made of steel and coated with coating characteristic crackle green or brownish-gray color. Some specimens have inscriptions and CENTURY USA on windshield, and some do not have any inscriptions.
The last instance is particularly interesting and keeps the spirit of its former owner, an American soldier or officer who scratched on the body of his beloved name: «MY ETHEL DEAR».
19.05.2010 Tags: windproof , fliptopy Topics: 1940 , Century , United States No comments yet
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 cigarette lighter was produced in the U.S. under the brand Dunhill during the Second World War and was intended specifically for the U.S. Army.
19.05.2010 Tags: windproof Topics: 1940 , Dunhill , USA 2 comment (s)
Douglass Wadsworth, 1926
Manufacturer: Douglass
Name: Douglass Wadsworth
Type: Semi-gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass, gold plated
Year: 1926
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 200-400
10.05.2010 Метки: позолоченные , полуавтоматические , свингармы Рубрики: 1920 , Douglass , США No comments yet
Strikalite glass lighter, 1940
Manufacturer: Strikalite Ltd
Title: Strikalite
Type: gasoline lighter reading
Material: glass, copper, brass, cobalt paint
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
27.04.2010 Tags: desktop , with removable lid , glass Categories: 1940 , Strikalite , USA 2 comment (s)
Negbaur, 1940
Manufacturer: Negbaur
Title: Negbaur Cannon Lighter
Type: Semi-board gasoline lighter
Material: copper-lead alloy
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 40-75
24.04.2010 Метки: настольные , полуавтоматические , скульптурные Рубрики: 1940 , Negbaur , США One comment
A cigarette Evans, 1950
Name: Evans
Type: automatic cigarette case with lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 10-25
18.04.2010 Tags: automatic , with a cigarette case Topics: 1950 , Evans , United States No comments yet
Gray, 1930
Title: Gray
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: late 1930s
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 10-25
18.04.2010 Tags: liftarmy Topics: 1930 , Gray , United States No comments yet
A cigarette Evans, 1940
Name: Evans
Type: automatic cigarette case with lighter gasoline
Material: Copper
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-40
18.04.2010 Tags: automatic , with a cigarette case Topics: 1940 , Evans , United States No comments yet
Evans Trig-a-Lite cigarette case, 1932
Manufacturer: Evans
Name: Evans Trig-a-Lite cigarette case
Type: automatic cigarette case with lighter gasoline
Material: Copper
Year: 1932
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 50-100
18.04.2010 Tags: automatic , with a cigarette case Topics: 1930 , Evans , United States No comments yet
