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?
Similar Lighters:
- Dunhill Rollalite, 1940
- Lighter Swiza, 1930
- Dunhill Rollalite brass, 1937
- Dunhill Rollalite 14K gold, 1938
- Dunhill Rollagas in a gold case Cartier, 1960
07/17/2010 
Tags: Roller Filed under: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland
17 comment (-s)
Aristocratic "warrior" :)
Misspelled Philippines and Okinawa. (PHILLIPPINES and OKINOWA). And maybe this is some slang ... Hardly a sailor did not know how these words are written.
Although he wrote, "Philippines" with an error. Heat ...
Well, for mine sweepers, displacement of 270 tons - that's OK, not really, and small. and the serial number of a warship - this is normal :). tugs, for example, still less, but still have names.
Although some tugs also have serial numbers, for example, Port 1, Port 2, etc.
270 tons .... a crumb! I went to the navigator SRTMk "Kholmogorsky" Kiev building, so he at length was 53m Displacement 650tonn. So we did not have the deck guns, mine trawl and reserve min.
And what is misspelled, so it's okay. In our lighters and such can be read.
where you could buy this one?
This copy is not for sale (unless of course you do not make me an offer I could not refuse.)
And this is you have a lighter? Cool))
where you get them?)
Yes, I have. I hunt for them :)
Traps are placed in the network and the network an Internet, at flea markets, to the commission and hlamnikah :)
and what will be the highest price? if you buy it :)
The maximum price for such a thing is practically unconstrained :) You see, by itself, this model lighters are not very expensive, and the "approximate value" in describing it reflects. But along with the history of a particular instance of excavated and its former owner of the ship's crew member YMS-370 ... I am afraid that the history of any public money can not be measured. Therefore, to adequately assess this particular instance with such a history is simply impossible.
1000 rubles suit? Or 2000 thousand? ;) Well, I knew you well)
Nah, not satisfied.
Of course I should not have promised about the "offer" :) I guess I is not ready to part with it, excuse me :)
15,000 rubles suit?
oh well, it happens)
1000-2000 and the price of the norms or not?)
Well, you get :) just for SWISS HANDY is a normal price. but for the SWISS HANDY with such a history ... no, I do not know! :)
My work as a collector - to dig out stories. therefore, lighters, which pass through my hands, often lose their nominal value and are, uh, khmmm ... priceless :))
* Crying * :)
I you do not perfectly ponyal.Bolshe will offer this izbreteniyu, sorry :)
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