Archive of category "1940"

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

Title: Handy
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, silver plated
Year: 1940
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 30-100

Lighters with a history of war are fairly common, but this - one of the most interesting finds. This Swiss Lighter Handy, is almost completely analogous Dunhill Rollalite by design (I can even assume that it did exactly Dunhill: after all, was the model Dunhill Handy , a different design, but with the same name). Lighter is made of copper silvered and then - this is the inscription 'S.800' on the mechanism of flint (by the way, looks and feels like it is completely silver, but copper yellow to shabby corner produces silver plated). In general, the sensations in your hand, it seems like a lighter at the clock so perfectly fit all the details and so accurately and reliably done (that is to be expected for Swiss products :). When you open the lid opens up a spring just as good as new, and this despite the fact that the lighter at least 70 years old!

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 of YMS (Auxiliary Mine Sweeper) were so small (displacement was only 270 tons), which had no name - only a serial number. Total of 1941 the ship was built 481 series YMS, they were virtually identical in their construction. The most recent series of YMS ship was in service to the American fleet in November 1969.

YMS-370 was laid on January 23, 1943 in the dock of Wheeler Shipbuilding Corp and launched on August 7 that year. After serving only 3 years old, it was decommissioned 19 June 1946 and finally sawed for scrap in 1948. But in 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 photos - the ship itself and his team in the last year of service. Some of these sailors and officers in the picture belongs to this unique and lighter. Who have you been, stranger CDH?

07/17/2010 Tags: Roller Filed under: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 17 comment (-s)

Lighter Cooperative from Myanmar, 1940-1950

Title: Cooperative
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1940-1950 (?)
Country: Myanmar (Burma)
Approximate cost: $ 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). Surely not all even aware of the existence of such a state! But here's a lighter from there - there :)

03/07/2010 Tags: with removable lid Filed under: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) One comment

Table Lighter The Giant, 1946

Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1946
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-70

The log advertisement in 1946 claimed that the lighter The Giant quite fill the entire four times a year - and this is very similar to the truth :)

13/06/2010 Tags: desktop , semi Filed under: 1940 , The Giant , United States No Comments

Desktop Lighter Kartro, 1940

Title: Kartro
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country:?
Approximate cost: $ 30-80

13/06/2010 Tags: desktop , semi Filed under: 1940 , Kartro No Comments

Pipe Lighter Beattie Jet, 1940

Name: Beattie Jet
Type: gasoline pipe jet lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-100

Pipe petrol lighter with the construction of 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and upgraded in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter than conventional cotton wick, is equipped with a thin hollow copper tube, which passes through the insert, and a cotton filler. With a light body tilt tube is heated lighters lit the flame of an ordinary wick, petrol fumes inside the insert and heat, expand and rush out, struggling under the pressure of a thin tube holes. At the exit, they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' lateral flame that lets you puff up. Beattie Jet - the most common and well known model of 'reactive' petrol lighters mid-20th century.

06/06/2010 Tags: liftarmy , reactive , Pipe Filed under: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 6 comment (-s)

Lighter Century, 1942-1945

Title: Century
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: Steel
Year: 1942-1945
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 15-50

Lighter Century - a typical fliptop the Second World War, produced for the U.S. Army. It was made of steel and covered with a coating characteristic crackle green or brownish-gray color. Some specimens have labels CENTURY and USA on the windshield, and some do not have any labels.

The last instance is particularly interesting, and keeps the spirit of its former owner, an American soldier or officer who scratched his name on the body of his beloved: «MY ETHEL DEAR».

19/05/2010 Tags: wind-proof , fliptopy Filed under: 1940 , Century , United States No Comments

Mexican Lighter Wincher, 1940-50

Title: Wincher
Type: windproof petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1940-50
Country: Mexico
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

19/05/2010 Tags: wind-proof , fliptopy Filed under: 1940 , Wincher , Mexico 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 U.S. under the brand Dunhill during the Second World War and was designed specifically for the U.S. Army.

19/05/2010 Tags: wind- Categories: 1940 , Dunhill , USA 2 comment (-s)

Desktop Lighter Barclay, 1948

Name: Barclay
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: brass, plastic
Year: 1948
Country: England
Approximate cost: $ 20-50

Desktop Lighter semi unusual design for ignition and extinction are used two buttons above the body.

19/05/2010 No Comments

Cartier liftarm gold with black enamel, 1940

Manufacturer: Cartier
Title: Cartier
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: gold, enamel
Year: 1940
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 1500-3000

05/10/2010 Tags: gold , liftarmy Filed under: 1940 , Cartier , France One comment

ST Dupont Jeroboam, 1943

Manufacturer: ST Dupont
Name: ST Dupont Jeroboam
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1943
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 1000-1500

07/05/2010 Tags: liftarmy , Roller Filed under: 1940 , ST Dupont , France One comment

Strikalite glass lighter, 1940

Manufacturer: Strikalite Ltd
Title: Strikalite
Type: Table Lighter gasoline
Material: glass, copper, brass, cobalt paint
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-50

04/27/2010 Tags: desktop , with a removable lid , glass Filed under: 1940 , Strikalite , USA 2 comment (-s)

Lighter in the form of a car, Japan, 1940

Type: Table gasoline in a car cigarette lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1940
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 80-150

04/27/2010 names , Japan 5 comment (-s)

Negbaur, 1940

Manufacturer: Negbaur
Title: Negbaur Cannon Lighter
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper-lead alloy
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 40-75