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?
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
17.07.2010 
Tags: Roller Topics: 1940 , Handy , Switzerland
17 comment (s)
Aristocratic "warrior" :)
Misspelled Philippines and Okinawa. (PHILLIPPINES and OKINOWA). Or maybe it's slang and what ... It is unlikely that the sailor did not know how to write these words.
Although he wrote "The Philippines" in error. Heat ...
Well, for trawlers min, displacement 270 tons - that's OK, not really even a little. and the serial number of a military ship - this is normal :). tugs, for example even smaller, but nonetheless have names.
although some tugs also have serial numbers, for example: Port 1, Port-2, etc.
270 tons .... it's a pipsqueak! I went to the co-driver SRTMk "Kholmogorskoye" Kiev buildings, so he at length 53m vodoizmeshenie was 650tonn. So we had no guns on the deck, and mine trawl stockpile.
And that that is misspelled, so it's okay. On our lighters and can not read it.
where you could buy a copy of this?
This copy is not for sale (unless of course you do not make me an offer I could not refuse.)
And this is lighter you? Cool))
where you get them?)
Yes, I have. I'm hunting for them :)
Traps are placed in the network and network internet, at flea markets, to the commission and hlamnikah :)
and what will be the maximum price? when you buy it :)
The maximum price for such things practically no limits :) You see, by itself, this model lighters are not very expensive, and the "estimated cost" in the description and it reflects. But along with the history of a particular instance of the excavated and its former owner, a member of the ship's crew YMS-370 ... I am afraid that the history of any public money can not be measured. Therefore, to adequately assess the concrete's such an instance with such a history is simply impossible.
1000 rubles suit? Thousands or 2000 ;) Well, I understand you perfectly)
Nope, not satisfied.
Of course I should not have promised about "supply" :) I guess I'm not ready to part with it, excuse me :)
15,000 rubles, all right?
oh well, it happens)
1000-2000 standards and the price or not?)
Well, you understand :) 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 - dig out stories. therefore lighters that pass through my hands, often lose their nominal value and are, uh, khmmm ... priceless :))
* Crying * :)
I have had a ponyal.Bolshe'm not going to propose to this izbreteniyu, sorry :)
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