Archive category "Stamps lighters"

Lighter Handy, in 1940, which belonged to member of the team minesweeper YMS-370

Name: Handy
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Copper, silver plated
Year of manufacture: 1940-e
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 30-100

Lighters with wartime history are fairly common, but this - one of the most interesting finds. This Swiss Lighter Handy, almost completely similar Dunhill Rollalite by design (I can even assume that it did exactly Dunhill: in the end, was a model of Dunhill Handy , other designs, but with the same name). Lighter is made of silvered copper and then - this is the inscription 'S.800' on flint mechanism (by the way, it looks and feels like a completely silver but copper yellowness at shabby corner produces silvering). Generally, the sensations in the hand, it seems like a lighter watch: so perfectly fit all the details and so accurately and reliably all done (which is to be expected for the Swiss products :). Cover when opening a spring leans just as good as new, and this despite the fact that the lighter at least 70 years!

But we are told the story of the inscription on the lighter. It belonged to a member of the team minesweeper YMS-370. The history of this ship is quite short. Ships Series YMS (Auxiliary Mine Sweeper) were so small (displacement was only 270 tonnes), which had no names - only a serial number. Total in 1941 was built the ship 481 series YMS, they were practically identical in their construction. The latest series of YMS ship was in service with the US Navy until 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, it was decommissioned 19 June 1946 and finally sawed for scrap in 1948. But in a short time, he managed to get service in many Asian countries, which are referred to in this lighter, Philippines, China, Japan, Korea ... In the last two photos - the ship itself and its team in the last year of service. To some of these sailors and officers in the photo belonged to this unique and lighter. Who were you, an unknown CDH?

17-07-2010 Tags: Categories: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 17 comment (-ev)

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 performed in New York at 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: , Categories: 1910 , Nassau , United States 18 comment (-ev)

Lighter Swiza, 1930

Title: Swiza
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: brass
Year of manufacture: 1930-e
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 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 astonishing thoroughness and clarity, particularly interesting cunning mechanism replacing the flint. To replace the need to simultaneously pull two tiny rychazhochka then flint horizontal vane moves out of the way.

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

Lighter Cooperative Myanmar, 1940-1950

Title: Cooperative
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1940-1950 (?)
Country: Myanmar (Burma)
The approximate cost of: $ 10-20

Very entertaining lighter. At first glance, it would have gone to 100% for the English, if not stamped on the bottom of the housing: made in Myanmar (formerly. Burma). Surely not all even know about the existence of such a state! But lighter there - there :)

03.07.2010 Tags: Categories: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) 4 comments (-ev)

IMCO 4300 1936

Manufacturer: IMCO
Name: IMCO 4300
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1936
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

The first of the models with removable lid Imco - design easier to nowhere; compared to other models of the time it looks quite primitive, but at the same time remains quite working and reliable.

02.07.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930 , IMCO , Austria No Comments

Lighter Hurricane, 1930

Title: Hurricane
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year of manufacture: 1930-e
Country: United States
The approximate cost of: $ 20-80

Lighters Hurricane produced in Bradford in 1930, the same time as 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: , Categories: 1930 , Hurricane , United States 9 a 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 :)

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Table Lighter Kartro, 1940

Title: Kartro
Type: semi-automatic table gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year of manufacture: 1940-e
Country:?
The approximate cost of: $ 30-80

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Table Lighter Jumbo, 1950

The name of: Jumbo
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year of manufacture: 1950-e
Country: Japan
The approximate cost of: $ 30-80

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Tabletop Lighter Swank, 1950

Name: Swank
Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: brass
Year of manufacture: 1950-e
Country: Japan
The approximate cost of: $ 20-80

Such lighters were produced in Japan in 1950-ies of and were used as of desktop in cafes and bars - into force of giant sizes and weight accidentally carry away her with him it was impossible to :) On the second photos for scale next to worth the usual Lighter Zippo.

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

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 ignited wick soaked with gasoline.

12.06.2010 Tags: , Categories: 1,890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comment (-ev)

Gilded Lighter Segalock in ostrich the skin, 1930

The name of: Segalock
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, gilding, ostrich leather
Year of manufacture: 1930-e
Country: United States
The approximate cost of: $ 30-80

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Lighter in the form of a gas station, 1960

Type: desktop gasoline lighter
Material: brass
Year: 1960
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 50-100

Typical Japanese zazhigalochnoe creativity 1960 - a huge table in the form of gasoline lighter gas station (Zippo next set to scale). For lighting of it need to be removed from the lateral opening of the wick holder (it is attached to the pull-out rubber band about half a meter 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 unit Butabloc
Material: brass, copper, leather
Year: 1959
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 15-50

One of the first models of handheld gas lighter, which 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

The name of: Beattie Jet
Type: Trubochny reactive gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year of manufacture: 1940-e
Country: United States
The approximate cost of: $ 25-100

Trubochny gasoline Lighter with the design 'jet flame'. Such a construction was first is patented in 1929 and improved in 1944 the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, besides the usual of cotton the wick, is equipped with a a thin vena copper tube, which passes through the insert and a wadded filler. When lightweight is tilted the housing a lighted lighters tube is heats up flame the usual the wick, a pair of gasoline inside the insert well as are heated, dilate and rush outward, vyryvayas under the pressure of from a thin holes tubule. At the exit they light up, forming a rather long 'reactance' lateral the flame, with the help of whose is convenient to lighting his pipe. Beattie Jet - the most common and known model 'of reactive' the gasoline lighters the mid 20 century.

06-06-2010 Tags: , , Categories: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 9 a comment (-ev)