Semi-automatic lighter Nassau, 1910
Manufacturer: Nassau Lighter Company
Name: Nassau
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1910
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 75-200
The lighters were made in Nassau, New York, in Nassau street, since 1910 (although the patent given in 1905). It was one of the first automatic pocket lighters that time, the mechanism of action of such a principle was invented in Austria in 1909. There were many options for finishing the body, from the simple to the chrome plating of silver and gold shells. On this lighter is attached company logo Royal Arcanum - one of the oldest insurance mutual benefit societies, founded in 1877 in Boston, it is there today.
07/13/2010 
Tags: semi-automatic , fliptopy Filed under: 1910 , Nassau , United States 
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Lighter Hurricane, 1930
Title: Hurricane
Type: windproof petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-80
Hurricane lighters manufactured in Bradford in 1930, at the same time with the Zippo, and their production over to the beginning of the 1940s, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. More common in copper Hurricane buildings, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is another instance of chrome and advertising label, which is rarely double.
13/06/2010 Tags: wind-proof , fliptopy Filed under: 1930 , Hurricane , United States 9 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 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
Lady's Lighter Dunhill, 1920
Name: Dunhill
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, brass, gold plated, ivory
Year: late 1920s
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ xxxx
This is a ladies' model of lighters, which are collected in one body: that is, a lighter, a watch, a box for the powder, stick, and platelets for the records of ivory (so-called 'ivory tablet'). Lighter in the collection of David Golden. Difficult even to estimate the rarity and value of such an instance, but certainly not least a four dollar amount :)
07/05/2010 Tags: ladies , gilded , clock , fliptopy Filed under: 1920 , Dunhill , Switzerland No Comments
Gold-plated gas ST Dupont, 1959
Name: ST Dupont
Type: Gas Lighter
Material: brass, gold-plated
Year: 1959
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 100-200
04/24/2010 DuPont , France No Comments
Dunhill Rollalite 14K gold, 1938
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Rollalite 14K gold
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: 585 gold, copper
Year: 1938
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 400-800
Dunhill Rollalite brass, 1937
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Rollalite
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1937
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 80-180
04/24/2010 Tags: roller , fliptopy Filed under: 1930 , Dunhill , Switzerland No Comments
Myon-203, 1930
Name: Myon-203
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1930
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 15-30
20/04/2010 Tags: fliptopy Filed under: 1930 , Myon , France No Comments
Rogers Rocket Flame, 1958
Manufacturer: Rogers
Title: Rogers Rocket Flame
Type: gasoline pipe jet lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-40
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 model of the 'reactive' petrol lighters mid-20th century, the other brands, like this Japanese Lighter Rogers, are much less common.
ST Dupont, 1940-1945
Name: ST Dupont
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1940-45
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 150-300
04/14/2010 Tags: roller , fliptopy Filed under: 1940 , ST Dupont , France One comment
ST Dupont Utility Lighter, 1938
Name: ST Dupont
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1938
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 150-250
04/14/2010 Tags: fliptopy Filed under: 1930 , ST Dupont , France No Comments
Dunhill Broadboy, 1936
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Broadboy
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1936
Country: England
Approximate cost: $ 70-150
12/04/2010 Tags: fliptopy Filed under: 1930 , Dunhill , England No Comments
Dunhill Rollalite, 1940
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Rollalite
Type: Gasoline Lighter
Material: copper, brass, silver plated
Year: 1940
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 60-150
12/04/2010 Tags: roller , fliptopy Filed under: 1940 , Dunhill , Switzerland 3 comment (-s)
