Archive of category "U.S."
Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910
Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Name: Nassau
Type: Semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year of release: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200
Nassau lighters produced in New York at the Nassau street, in 1910 (although on a patent N 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 options for finishing the body, from the simple to the silver chrome and gold buildings. This lighter is attached emblem of Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance mutual benefit societies, founded in 1877 in Boston, it exists today.
13.07.2010 
Tags: semi-automatic , fliptopy Topics: 1910 , Nassau , USA 
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Lighter Hurricane, 1930
Title: Hurricane
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-80
Hurricane lighters manufactured in Bradford in 1930, the same time as Zippo, and their production over to the beginning of the 1940s, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More likely to occur in copper Hurricane buildings, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is another instance of Chrome and advertising label that rarely twice.
13.06.2010 Tags: windproof , fliptopy Topics: 1930 , Hurricane , United States 9 comment (s)
Table Lighter The Giant, 1946
Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: Semi-board petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year of release: 1946
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-70
The log advertisement in 1946 claimed that the lighter The Giant just enough to fill four times a year - and this is probably true :)
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 of release: 1890
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 100-250
This is a unique specimen - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, before the invention of flint. Spark in it made a special tape to fulminate Pistone (rattlesnake acid salts), and use it to set on fire with gasoline soaked wick.
12.06.2010 Tags: without flint , percussion caps Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comment (s)
Gold plated lighter Segalock in ostrich skin, 1930
Title: Segalock
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, gold plated, ostrich leather
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 30-80
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 petrol lighter with the construction of 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and improved in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, in addition to conventional cotton wick is equipped with a thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. When bending the body lighted tube is heated by the flame of the lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert also heat up, expand and rush out, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube openings. At the output are light, forming a rather long 'reactive' flame side, with which is puff up. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.
06.06.2010 Tags: liftarmy , jet , pipe Topics: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 8 comment (s)
Lighter Century, 1942-1945
Name: Century
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Steel
Year: 1942-1945
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 15-50
Lighter Century - fliptop typical of the Second World War, was produced for the U.S. Army. It was made of steel and coated with a characteristic surface crackle green or brownish-gray color. Some specimens are labeled and CENTURY USA on 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 on the body of the name of his beloved: «MY ETHEL DEAR».
19.05.2010 Tags: windproof , fliptopy Topics: 1940 , Century , United States No comments yet
Dunhill Service Lighter, 1943-1945
Title: Dunhill Service Lighter
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1943-1945
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-100
This lighter was produced in the United States 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
Title: 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 petrol lighter
Material: glass, copper, brass, cobalt paint
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
27.04.2010 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-board petrol lighter
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 yet
Gray, 1930
Title: Gray
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: brass, copper
Year: Late 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 10-25
18.04.2010 Tags: liftarmy Topics: 1930 , Gray , United States No comments yet
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 yet
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 of release: 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 yet
