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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: , Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comment (s)