Archive category "1890"
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: without flint , Pistone Categories: 1,890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 
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