Archive category "USA"
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: semi, fliptopy Categories: 1910, Nassau, United States 
18 comment (-ev)
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: windproof, fliptopy 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: desktop, semi-Categories: 1940, The Giant, United States no comments
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: without flint, Pistone 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: кожаные , лифтармы , позолоченные Рубрики: 1930 , Segalock , США no comments
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: liftarmy, jet, Pipe Categories: 1940, Beattie Jet, United States 9 comment (-ev)
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 of World War II, was produced for the US Army. It is made of steel and coated with typical coating crackle green or brown-gray. Some specimens have inscriptions CENTURY and USA, in 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 the name of his beloved: «MY ETHEL DEAR».
19.05.2010 Tags: windproof, fliptopy Categories: 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 United States under the brand Dunhill during World War II and was designed specifically for the US Army.
19.05.2010 Tags: Wind-Categories: 1940, Dunhill, USA 2 comment (-ev)
Douglass Wadsworth, 1926
Manufacturer: Douglass
Name: Douglass Wadsworth
Type: Semi-automatic lighter gasoline
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
Strikalite glass lighter, 1940
Manufacturer: Strikalite Ltd
Title: Strikalite
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
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 (-ev)
Negbaur, 1940
Manufacturer: Negbaur
Title: Negbaur Cannon Lighter
Type: semi-automatic table 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
Cigarette 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, a cigarette case Categories: 1950, Evans, United States no comments
Gray, 1930
Title: Gray
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: end of 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 10-25
18.04.2010 Tags: liftarmy Categories: 1930, Gray, United States no comments
Cigarette 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, a cigarette case Categories: 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, a cigarette case Categories: 1930, Evans, United States no comments
