Other Lighters etc.

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Collection of other lighters & tobacciana

While Zippo collecting is the main focus it has led to a fascination with other types of lighters & tobacciana as well - the range of different mechanisms with the same purpose is amazing.

Information has been gathered from books, the internet & talking with other collectors

- please let me know if there's something wrong or you have something to add ...

a day without learning is a pretty sad day ;-)

Sorry I do not give valuations as the market is so fluid.

America :-

Evans The Evans Case Company (formerly The Evans Novelty Company) of Attleboro, Massachusetts started producing lighters c. 1928 & stopped in 1960

ASR American Safety Razor Co. of Brooklyn, New York

Negbaur Harry Negbaur of New York designed & manufactured numerous lighters and mens accessories during the 1930's thru 1940's.He was a tool and die maker for the Dollin Die Casting Company of Irvington, New Jersey, that cast the figures.Irving Florman of New York also designed for Negbaur

Park

a.k.a. Park Sherman, of Springfield, Illinois, USA

Others

Berkeley made by the Flashlight Company of America, Jersey City, N.J.

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Spider Map

c. 1940's?? - unusual very heavy (?? pot metal) lighter from Bor-Lenz

Capitol - an automatic petrol cigar lighter. Capitols were likely manufactured in the late 1920's-early 1930's and none date from before 1924. The unusual brass plated lighter features a mechanical snap up levered mechanism - this mechanism was first invented in 1923 by Josef Kluss of Vienna - Kluss was an important Austrian inventor of mechanical lighters but he never patented his inventions in the USA. Louis Aronson copied the Kluss invention with a 1925 version but never put it into production. Steele and Johnson of Waterbury also copied the Kluss mechanism with their Capitol model. They used a 1912 George Eldred patent to avoid possible litigation. All Capitol lighters are marked with the Eldred patent date - Sept 17 1912 - on thumb lever. Steele & Johnson were major producers of brass accessories and they mostly made their Capitol lighter in brass. It appears that some Capitols had a cigarette ashtray base & some didn't. (Most of this info comes from Larry Tolkin's study of them)

Early model "Jet"

Ascot fluid table lighter

Fluid lighter

Fluid pocket lighter with aluminium case & steel insert (?? c. 1950's), pic 2 shows insert & cam mechanism & pic 3 the closed fuel cell bottom

2 x gold plated fluid table lighter

Bone china fluid table lighter

"Black Starr Gorham Sterling Weighted 888" with engraving for Sands Point Golf Club Championship, 1960

c. 1934 fluid pocket lighter

Enamel & gold plate fluid table lighter

c. 1950's fluid table lighter

?? c. 1941 ?? "Spitfire"

Brass cannon fluid table lighter

The rarer chrome cannon fluid table lighter

Knight fluid table lighter

Chrome fluid table lighter

c. 1939 Golf clubs fluid table lighter

?? Bakelight Knight fluid table lighter

Fluid table lighter

Fluid lighter pencil combo pocket lighter

Bulldog

Mystic Flame, battery & fluid table lighter with wand

Cigar

c. 1940 "Miss Cutie" table lighter marked Patent Pending MISS CUTIE Made in U.S.A. ALLBRIGHT,N.Y.

WW2 era fluid pocket lighter with steel case & insert & owner attached emblems - pic 3 shows the simple yet effective cam system & also the tube to the left of the slint screw to hold spare flints

Fluid advertising pocket lighter with aluminium case & insert

Fluid advertising table lighter with aluminium case & insert

"Phone Lite" fluid table lighter & ashtray set

c. mid 1960's "Giv-a-gift Inc., Brooklyn 1, N.Y., The Jet Line" fluid table lighter

c. early 1970's "Nimrod Pipelighter" fluid pocket lighter

Nimrod pipelighter with all it's original packaging & paperwork

"Metro" fluid pocket lighter from Paragon Products Co., Toledo, Ohio

c. late 1940's "Golden Wheel" miniature liftarm fluid lighter

"Strike-a-lite" hand painted bone china fluid pocket lighter

Modern trench art lighter made by Tom "Pyro" Prylinski - a very knowledgeable (& super lovely) longtime collector. Pic 3 - the lighter & Tom's business card - too funny!

c. late 1940's "Golden Wheel" miniature liftarm fluid lighter Solar powered lighter by RadioShack/Tandy

c. 1940's?? - unusual very heavy (?? pot metal) lighter from Bor-Lenz

MEB Diplomat fluid lift arm (c. 1920's)

c. 1906 "Nassau" fluid pocket lighter

Beattie Beattie Products, Inc. of New York

Later model "Jet"

The fascinating "Jet" was designed by Francis Leslie Phillips in 1944 & appears to have been produced until 1961. It is an improvement on, and an almost exact duplicate of, William E. Evans 1939 design for the Waterbury Lock & Speciality Co. of Milford, Connecticut. It appears that Evans' design was based on Guy Barker's (London, England) invention of the first jet lighter in 1929.

The Jet lighter is a fluid lighter, &, having a metal tube with a micro-orifice next to the side of the wick, will produce either a normal Zippo-like flame, or, if tilted 45 degrees, will produce a long jet flame up to 6 cms long which is ideal for lighting pipes (pics 1 & 2). This jet flame was also promoted as being useful for thawing frozen car locks, blackening gun sights, lighting fireplaces & camfires, & doing small soldering jobs

Colby - automatic deco styled fluid lighters invented by Abner Kohlberg of New York in 1944. The snuffer door snaps open creating a windscreen when the lever is pressed. the slim style colby mechanism is very unusual and highly collectible. The Colby lighter corp was partly owned by singer Bing Crosby - he is featured in many of their 1940's ads.

Pocket lighter, 6 cms tall

"New Method Quick Action", Bradford, PA. A methanol pocket lighter with a platinum catalyst. Unusual as bottom stamp is over-stamped with “Case made in Japan” (see last pic)

Fluid table lighter

1949 - 53 Heritage

3 piece fluid table

lighter set (tray,

lighter & cigarette

holder) in

Douglass The Douglass Lighter Company was started by Leon F. Douglass who patented his semi-automatic lighter with a powerful swing-arm action on October 12,1926. He was a prolific inventor who was one of the founders of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Bottom stamps can be found with either Menlo Park, California or the Wrigley Building, Chicago. He also worked with the Wadsworth Company, who were master jewellers & watch case makers, to produce a more upmarket line.