Lighter Hurricane, 1930

Title: Hurricane
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 20-80

Lighters Hurricane produced in Bradford in 1930, at the same time a Zippo, and production ended in the beginning of 1940, unable to withstand competition from the Zippo Manufacturing Company. Most often found in copper Hurricane cases, much less - with chrome housing. Presented here is an instance of chrome, and even advertising label that is doubly rare.

13.06.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, Hurricane, United States 9 comment (-ev)

Lighter Century, 1942-1945

Title: Century
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: Steel
Year: 1942-1945
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 15-50

Lighter Century - typical fliptop of World War II, was produced for the US Army. It is made of steel and coated with typical coating crackle green or brown-gray. Some specimens have inscriptions CENTURY and USA, in windshield, and some do not have any inscriptions.

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: Categories: 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. It was the first time the cap is equipped with a wick shackle through which the cap reclined automatically when moving apart lighters.

19.05.2010 Tags: Categories: 1920, IMCO, Austria 33 comments (-ev)

Mexican Lighter Wincher, 1940-50

Title: Wincher
Type: gasoline windproof lighter
Material: Copper
Year: 1940-50
Country: Mexico
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

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Opal Standard by Champ, 1960

Manufacturer: Champ
Title: Opal Standard
Type: semi-automatic windproof lighter gasoline
Material: Brass
Year: 1960
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

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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 United States under the brand Dunhill during World War II and was designed specifically for the US Army.

19.05.2010 Tags: 1940, Dunhill, USA 2 comment (-ev)

Dunhill Unique Sports clock, 1929-1930

Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Unique Sports
Type: gasoline Lighter with Clock
Material: silver
Year: 1929
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 2000-4000

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Dunhill Unique Sports, 9k gold, 1929

Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Unique Sports
Type: gasoline Lighter with Clock
Material: Gold 375 samples
Year: 1929
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 4000-10000

27.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1920, Dunhill, Switzerland 3 comment (-ev)

Dunhill Unique Sports, sterling, 1929

Manufacturer: Alfred Dunhill London
Name: Dunhill Unique Sports
Type: gasoline Lighter with Clock
Material: silver
Year: 1929
Country: Switzerland
Approximate cost: $ 2000-4000

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Rogers Rocket Flame, 1958

Manufacturer: Rogers
Name: Rogers Rocket Flame
Type: Pipe reactive gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1958
Country: Japan
Approximate cost: $ 15-40

Pipe Lighter with gasoline design 'jet flame'. This design was first patented in 1929 and enhanced in 1944 by the American company Beattie Jet Products. Lighter, apart from the usual cotton wick it has a thin hollow copper tube which passes through the insert and a cotton filler. When a light tilting body lighted tube is heated by the flame of a lighter conventional wick, gasoline fumes and heat inside the insert, expand and rush outside, breaking under the pressure of a thin tube opening. On the way out they light up, forming a rather long 'reactive' side flame, through which user-friendly lighting his pipe. Beattie Jet - the most common model of 'reactive' petrol lighter mid-20th century, the other brands like the Japanese Lighter Rogers, are much rarer.

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TCW Welsbach Ready, 1930

Manufacturer: TCW Welsbach
Title: Ready
Type: automatic petrol lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1930
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

13.04.2010 Tags: Categories: 1930, Ready, Austria 5 comment (-ev)

KB Majak, 1930

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

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Marathon liftarm, 1945

Title: Marathon
Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass, leather
Year: 1940
Country: United States
Approximate cost: $ 200-300

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Canadian windproof lighter 1940

Type: gasoline lighter
Material: copper, brass
Year: 1940
Country: Canada
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

04-04-2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, Untitled, Canada no comments

Colonel, 1940

Title: Colonel
Type: automatic petrol lighter
Material: Brass
Year: 1940
Country: Austria
Approximate cost: $ 15-30

04-04-2010 Tags: Categories: 1940, Colonel, Austria 2 comment (-ev)