Archive of category "Stamps of lighters"

Lighter Handy, 1940, belonged to a team member minesweeper YMS-370

Title: Handy
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Copper, silver plated
Year: 1940
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 30-100

Lighters with wartime history are fairly common, but this - one of the most interesting findings. This Swiss Lighter Handy, almost completely analogous Dunhill Rollalite in design (I even can imagine that it did exactly Dunhill: in the end, was the model Dunhill Handy , a different design, but with the same name). Lighter is made of copper and then silvered - as evidenced by the inscription 'S.800' on the mechanism of flint (by the way, looks and feels like it is entirely silver, but copper yellowness on shabby corner produces silver plated). Generally, the sensations in your hand, it seems like a lighter at his watch so perfectly fit all the details and so neatly and securely all done (which is expected for Swiss products :). When you open the lid leans a spring just as good as new, and this despite the fact that the lighter at least 70 years!

But history tells us the inscription on the cigarette lighter. It belonged to a team member minesweeper YMS-370. The history of this ship is quite brief. Ships series YMS (Auxiliary Mine Sweeper) were so small (displacement was only 270 tons), which had no name - only a serial number. Total in 1941 was built the ship 481 series YMS, they were almost identical in their construction. The latest series of YMS ship was in service to the American fleet in November 1969.

YMS-370 was laid on 23 January 1943 at the dock of Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp and launched on August 7 of the same year. After serving only 3 years old, it was decommissioned 19 June 1946 and finally sawed for scrap in 1948. But within a short time of service, he had visited many Asian countries, which are mentioned on this lighter, Philippines, China, Japan, Korea ... In the last two pictures - the ship itself and his team for the last year of service. To some of these sailors and officers in the picture belonged to this unique and lighter. Who were you, an unknown CDH?

17.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 17 comment (-ev)

Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910

Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Title: Nassau
Type: Semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200

Nassau lighters produced in New York, on Nassau street, in 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 choices of finishes, from simple chrome plating to silver and gold buildings. 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: , Topics: 1910 , Nassau , USA 18 comment (-ev)

Lighter Swiza, 1930

Title: Swiza
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Brass
Year: 1930
Country: Switzerland
Average price: $ 20-50

Small wonder the Swiss engineering, rare lighter Swiza 1930s, maybe an older brother, and even the pope popular model Dunhill Rollalite :) Mechanics made with amazing thoroughness and clarity, particularly interesting cunning flint replacement mechanism. For replacement must be pulled simultaneously two tiny rychazhochka, then the horizontal vane moves down towards the flint.

13.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1930 , Swiza , Switzerland 9 comment (-ev)

Lighter Cooperative from Myanmar, 1940-1950

Title: Cooperative
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Copper
Year: 1940-1950 (?)
Country: Myanmar (Burma)
Average price: $ 10-20

Very amusing lighter. At first glance, it would have gone to 100% for the English, if not stamped on the bottom of the case: made in Myanmar (formerly. Burma). Certainly not all even aware of the existence of such a state! But here's the lighter there - there :)

03.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) 4 comment (-ev)

IMCO 4300, 1936

Manufacturer: IMCO
Name: IMCO 4300
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Copper
Release year: 1936
Country: Austria
Average price: $ 15-30

The first model with removable lid Imco - design as simple as possible; compared to other models of the time it looks quite primitive, but nevertheless remains quite working and reliable.

02.07.2010 Tags: Topics: 1930 , IMCO , Austria No comments yet

Lighter Hurricane, 1930

Title: Hurricane
Type: windproof lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Average price: $ 20-80

Lighters Hurricane produced in Bradford in the 1930s, at the same time with the Zippo, and production ended in early 1940's, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More likely to occur in the Hurricane brass body, much less - with chrome-plated. Presented here is an instance of chrome and more advertising label that rarely twice.

13.06.2010 Tags: , Topics: 1930 , Hurricane , USA 9 comment (-ev)

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
Average price: $ 25-70

And magazine 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: , Topics: 1940 , The Giant , USA No comments yet

Table lighter Kartro, 1940

Title: Kartro
Type: Semi-board gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country:?
Average price: $ 30-80

13.06.2010 Tags: , Topics: 1940 , Kartro No comments yet

Table lighter Jumbo, 1950

Name: Jumbo
Type: board gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Average price: $ 30-80

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Table lighter Swank, 1950

Title: Swank
Type: board gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Average price: $ 20-80

These lighters were made in Japan in the 1950s and used as a desktop in cafes and bars - due to giant size and weight accidentally carry it with him was impossible :) The second photo to zoom standing next regular lighter Zippo.

13.06.2010 Метки: , , Рубрики: 1950 , Swank , Япония 4 comment (-ev)

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 of the - one of the world's first pocket lighters, patented in 1890, even before the invention of the flint. Spark it made a special tape with fulminate Pistone (salts rattlesnake acid), and with that ignited the wick soaked with gasoline.

12.06.2010 Tags: , Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comment (-ev)

Gold plated lighter Segalock in ostrich skin, 1930

Title: Segalock
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, gold plated, ostrich leather
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Average price: $ 30-80

12.06.2010 Метки: , , Рубрики: 1930 , Segalock , США No comments yet

Lighter in the form of a gas station, 1960

Type: board gasoline lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960's
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 50-100

Typical Japanese zazhigalochnoe creativity 1960s - a huge table lighter in the form of gasoline gas station (Zippo next set to scale). For lighting of it must be removed from the side vent wick holder (it is attached to the pull-out rubber band about two feet 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)

Butane Lighter Flaminaire, 1959

Title: Flaminaire Galet
Type: gas lighter with a removable gas block Butabloc
Material: brass, copper, leather
Release year: 1959
Country: France
Average price: $ 15-50

One of the first models of handheld gas lighters used replacement gas blocks Butabloc. The French firm Flaminaire first ever released to the mass market gas lighter (desktop model Flaminaire Gentry) in 1947.

06.06.2010 Tags: , Categories: 1950 , Flaminaire , France 10 comment (-ev)

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, besides the usual cotton wick has a thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. With a light body tilted a lighted tube is heated by the flame of the lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert and heat up, expand and rush out, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube opening. On the way out they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' side flame, by which is convenient puff up. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.

06.06.2010 Tags: , , Topics: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 9 comment (-ev)