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.

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Table Lighter The Giant, 1946

Manufacturer: Galter Manufacturing Company
Title: The Giant
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1946
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 25-70

The log advertisement in 1946 claimed that the lighter The Giant quite fill the entire four times a year - and this is very similar to the truth :)

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Desktop Lighter KW, 1940

Manufacturer: Karl Wieden
Name: KW
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: Germany
Approximate cost: $ 30-80

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Desktop Lighter Kartro, 1940

Title: Kartro
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country:?
Approximate cost: $ 30-80

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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

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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.

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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

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Semi-gold lighter Cartier, 1930

Manufacturer: Cartier
Title: Cartier
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: Gold
Year: 1930
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 2000-4000

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Lighter with Clock Lancel, 1930

Title: Lancel
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter with clocks
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 400-700

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Lancel Bijou, 1930

Title: Lancel Bijou
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: France
Approximate cost: $ 30-70

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Lighter in the form of a car, Japan, 1940

Type: Table gasoline in a car cigarette lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1940
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 80-150

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Negbaur, 1940

Manufacturer: Negbaur
Title: Negbaur Cannon Lighter
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: copper-lead alloy
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 40-75

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KB Fork, 1930

Manufacturer: KB
Name: KB Fork
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1930
Country: Czechoslovakia
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

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Super-Snap, 1930

Title: Super-Snap
Type: semi-automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper, celluloid
Year: 1930
Country: France (?)
Approximate cost: $ 50-130

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Desktop Lighter Mylflam, 1946

Title: Mylflam
Type: semi-automatic table lighter gasoline
Material: brass, copper
Year: 1946
Country: Germany
Approximate cost: $ 50-120

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