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 
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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)
Lighter Century, 1942-1945
Name: Century
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Steel
Year: 1942-1945
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 15-50
Lighter Century - fliptop typical of the Second World War, was produced for the U.S. Army. It was made of steel and coated with a characteristic surface crackle green or brownish-gray color. Some specimens are labeled and CENTURY USA on 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 on the body of the name of his beloved: «MY ETHEL DEAR».
19.05.2010 Tags: windproof , fliptopy Topics: 1940 , Century , United States No comments yet
Mexican lighter Wincher, 1940-50
Title: Wincher
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1940-50
Country: Mexico
Approximate cost: $ 15-30
19.05.2010 Tags: windproof , fliptopy Topics: 1940 , Wincher , Mexico No comments yet
Dunhill Rollagas in a gold case Cartier, 1960
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London, gold case by Cartier
Title: Dunhill Rollagas
Type: gas lighter
Material: Gold
Year: 1960
Country: Switzerland / France
Approximate cost: $ 500-1000
Lady's Lighter Dunhill, 1920
Title: Dunhill
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, brass, gold-plated, ivory
Year: end of 1920
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ xxxx
This ladies model lighters, which are collected in one body: that is lighter, a watch, a box for powder, pen and platelets for records of ivory (the so-called 'ivory tablet'). Lighter from the collection of David Gold. Hard to even roughly estimate the cost and rarity of such an instance, but definitely not less than four-digit dollar amount :)
07.05.2010 Tags: ladies , gold-plated , with the clock , fliptopy Topics: 1920 , Dunhill , Switzerland No comments yet
Gold-plated gas ST Dupont, 1959
Name: ST Dupont
Type: gas lighter
Material: brass, gold plated
Year of release: 1959
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 100-200
24.04.2010 Dupont , France No comments yet
Dunhill Rollalite 14K gold, 1938
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Title: Dunhill Rollalite 14K gold
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: 585 gold, copper
Year: 1938
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 400-800
Dunhill Rollalite brass, 1937
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Title: Dunhill Rollalite
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1937
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 80-180
24.04.2010 Tags: roller , fliptopy Topics: 1930 , Dunhill , Switzerland No comments yet
Myon-203, 1930
Title: Myon-203
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: Brass
Year: 1930
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 15-30
20.04.2010 Tags: fliptopy Topics: 1930 , Myon , France No comments yet
Rogers Rocket Flame, 1958
Manufacturer: Rogers
Name: Rogers Rocket Flame
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year of release: 1958
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-40
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 model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century, the other brands, like this Japanese Lighter Rogers, are much less common.
ST Dupont, 1940-1945
Name: ST Dupont
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1940-45
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 150-300
14.04.2010 Tags: roller , fliptopy Topics: 1940 , ST Dupont , France 4 comment (s)
ST Dupont Utility Lighter, 1938
Name: ST Dupont
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1938
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 150-250
14.04.2010 Tags: fliptopy Topics: 1930 , ST Dupont , France No comments yet
Dunhill Broadboy, 1936
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Title: Dunhill Broadboy
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, brass
Year of release: 1936
Country: England
Approximate cost: $ 70-150
12.04.2010 Tags: fliptopy Topics: 1930 , Dunhill , England No comments yet
Dunhill Rollalite, 1940
Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Title: Dunhill Rollalite
Type: Oil Lighters
Material: copper, brass, silver plated
Year: 1940
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 60-150
12.04.2010 Tags: roller , fliptopy Topics: 1940 , Dunhill , Switzerland 3 comment (s)
