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 
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Electronic table lighter Rowenta, 1960
Manufacturer: Rowenta
Name: Rowenta Electronic
Type: reading electronic gas lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Germany
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
One of the first electronic cigarette lighters, working on battery power, the classical model of the German company Rowenta. Equipped with a condenser, through which the valve was given a spark when you press the button while you press the valve open.
Lighter Chadwick with a calendar and calculator, 1950
Title: Chadwick
Type: automatic petrol lighter with a calendar and a calculator air
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 25-50
Lighter with a "perpetual" calendar for the years 1950-1977, and with a mechanical calculator to calculate the ground speed of aircraft. Made in Japan from the 1950s, and known instances of the late 1970s. By all appearances, was intended primarily for pilots :)
05/24/2010 Tags: automatic , with a calendar Categories: 1950 , Chadwick , Japan One comment
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
IMCO Ifa, 1927
Name: IMCO Ifa
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1927
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 20-50
This is the third model in the line of IMCO, which appeared in 1927. On her first cap was fitted with a wick bow, with which the cap leaned automatically apart of lighters.
19/05/2010 Tags: wind-proof , sliding Filed under: 1920 , IMCO , Austria 15 comment (-s)
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
Mosda Streamline 500, 1950
Manufacturer: Mosda
Title: Mosda Streamline 500
Type: automatic petrol lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1950
Country: England
Approximate cost: $ 15-25
19/05/2010 Tags: automatic Filed under: 1950 , Mosda , England 6 comment (-s)
Opal Standard by Champ, 1960
Manufacturer: Champ
Name: Opal Standard
Type: semi-windproof petrol lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30
19/05/2010 Standard , Austria 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.
Homemade lighter from the canister, 1930
Type: home-made petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1930
Approximate cost: $ 40-70
05/10/2010 Tags: homemade Filed under: 1930 , Untitled One comment
Douglass Wadsworth, 1926
Producer: Douglass
Name: Douglass Wadsworth
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass, gold-plated
Year: 1926
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 200-400
Dunhill Unique Sports clock, 1929-1930
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Unique Sports
Type: petrol lighter with clocks
Material: silver
Year: 1929
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 2000-4000
05/10/2010 Tags: wind-proof , liftarmy , with the clock , Silver Filed under: 1930 , Dunhill , Switzerland No Comments
Dunhill Unique with cloisonne enamel, 1930
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill
Name: Dunhill Unique
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: silver, enamel
Year: 1930
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 2000-3000
05/10/2010 Tags: liftarmy , Silver Filed under: 1930 , Dunhill , Switzerland No Comments
Dunhill Rollagas in a gold case Cartier, 1960
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London, a gold shell by Cartier
Name: Dunhill Rollagas
Type: Gas Lighter
Material: Gold
Year: 1960
Country: Switzerland / France
Approximate cost: $ 500-1000
