Archive of category "Years"
Lighter Handy, in 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 finds. This Swiss Lighter Handy, almost completely Dunhill Rollalite similar in design (I can not even imagine what it has done exactly Dunhill: after all, was the model Dunhill Handy , a different design, but with the same name). Lighter is made of silvered copper and then - this is the inscription 'S.800' on the mechanism of flint (by the way, looks and feels like she is completely silver, but copper on yellow shabby corner produces silver plated). In general, the sensations in your hand, it seems like a lighter watch: so all the parts fit perfectly and are so neatly and securely done (which is expected for Swiss products :). When you open the lid swings 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. She 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 did not have a name - just a serial number. Total since 1941 the ship was built 481 series YMS, they were almost identical in their construction. The most recent series of YMS ship was in service with the U.S. 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 that year. After serving only 3 years, 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 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: Roller Topics: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland 
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Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910
Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Name: Nassau
Type: Semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year of release: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200
Nassau lighters produced in New York at the Nassau street, in 1910 (although on a patent N 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 options for finishing the body, from the simple to the silver chrome and gold buildings. This lighter is attached emblem of Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance mutual benefit societies, founded in 1877 in Boston, it exists today.
13.07.2010 Tags: semi-automatic , fliptopy Topics: 1910 , Nassau , USA 13 comment (s)
Lighter Swiza, 1930
Title: Swiza
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Brass
Year: 1930
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
Small wonder the Swiss engineering, rare lighter Swiza 1930, maybe older brother, and even Pope popular model Dunhill Rollalite :) Mechanics made with astonishing thoroughness and clarity of particular interest cunning mechanism replacing the flint. To replace the need to simultaneously pull two tiny rychazhochka, after which a horizontal flap flint drives off to the side.
13.07.2010 Tags: Roller Topics: 1930 , Swiza , Switzerland 6 comment (s)
Lighter Cooperative of Myanmar, 1940-1950
Title: Cooperative
Type: Oil Lighters
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). Certainly not all even aware of the existence of such a state! But that's lighter then - there :)
03.07.2010 Tags: with removable lid Topics: 1940 , Untitled , Myanmar (Burma) 4 comment (s)
IMCO 4300, 1936
Manufacturer: IMCO
Name: IMCO 4300
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Copper
Year of release: 1936
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30
The first model Imco with removable lid - a design as simple as possible, compared to other models of the time it looks quite primitive, but at the same time is quite a working and reliable.
02.07.2010 Tags: with removable lid Topics: 1930 , IMCO , Austria No comments yet
Lighter Hurricane, 1930
Title: Hurricane
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-80
Hurricane lighters manufactured in Bradford in 1930, the same time as Zippo, and their production over to the beginning of the 1940s, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More likely to occur in copper Hurricane buildings, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is another instance of Chrome and advertising label that rarely twice.
13.06.2010 Tags: windproof , fliptopy Topics: 1930 , Hurricane , United States 9 comment (s)
Table Lighter The Giant, 1946
Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: Semi-board petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year of release: 1946
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-70
The log advertisement in 1946 claimed that the lighter The Giant just enough to fill four times a year - and this is probably true :)
13.06.2010 Tags: desktop , semi Topics: 1940 , The Giant , USA No comments yet
Table Lighter Kartro, 1940
Title: Kartro
Type: Semi-board petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country:?
Approximate cost: $ 30-80
13.06.2010 Tags: desktop , semi Topics: 1940 , Kartro No comments yet
Table Lighter Jumbo, 1950
Name: Jumbo
Type: table petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 30-80
13.06.2010 Tags: liftarmy , desktop Topics: 1950 , Jumbo , Japan No comments yet
Table Lighter Swank, 1950
Title: Swank
Type: table petrol lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 20-80
These lighters were produced in Japan in the 1950s and used as a desktop in cafes and bars - because of enormous size and weight accidentally carry it with him was impossible :) The second picture to zoom standing next regular lighter Zippo.
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: without flint , percussion caps Topics: 1890 , Pocket Lamp , USA 8 comment (s)
Gold plated lighter Segalock in ostrich skin, 1930
Title: Segalock
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, gold plated, ostrich leather
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 30-80
Lighter in the form of a gas station, 1960
Type: table petrol lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 50-100
Typical Japanese zazhigalochnoe creativity 1960 - a huge table lighter in the form of gasoline filling 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), push it into the hole in the upper part near the wheel and there is a spark to ignite the wick.
12.06.2010 Tags: desktop , sculpture Categories: 1960 , Untitled , Japan 7 comment (s)
Gas lighter Flaminaire, 1959
Title: Flaminaire Galet
Type: gas lighter with a removable gas block Butabloc
Material: brass, copper, leather
Year of release: 1959
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 15-50
One of the first models of the gas pocket lighters, gas-fired units use interchangeable Butabloc. The French firm Flaminaire first ever released to the mass market gas lighter (desktop model Flaminaire Gentry) in 1947.
06.06.2010 Tags: gas , leather Filed under: 1950 , Flaminaire , France 10 comment (s)
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 petrol lighter with the construction of 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and improved in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, in addition to conventional cotton wick is equipped with a thin hollow copper tube that passes through the insert and cotton filler. When bending the body lighted tube is heated by the flame of the lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes inside the insert also heat up, expand and rush out, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube openings. At the output are light, forming a rather long 'reactive' flame side, with which is puff up. Beattie Jet - the most common and well-known model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century.
06.06.2010 Tags: liftarmy , jet , pipe Topics: 1940 , Beattie Jet , United States 9 comment (s)
