"In all things be passionate"

Paul G. Fleming & Martine Carpentier,
Free Spirit Engraver/Sandblasters of Christchurch, New Zealand
Email: zaq12w@gmail.com

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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.
America :-
Evans
Gold plated fluid table lighter
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
"Phone Lite" fluid table lighter & ashtray set
"Ascot' fluid table lighter
Fluid table lighter
Fluid lighter
ASR American Safety Razor Co.
Brass cannon fluid table lighter
Negbaur Harry Negbaur designed & owned Negbaur Lighters circa 1940.He was a tool and die maker for the Dollin Die Casting Company of Irvington, New Jersey, that cast the figures.
Chrome fluid table lighter
c. 1939 Golf clubs fluid table lighter
?? Bakelight Knight fluid table lighter
Mystic Flame, battery & fluid table lighter with wand
Fluid table lighter
Fluid lighter pencil combo pocket lighter
Park
a.k.a. Park Sherman, of Springfield, Illinois, USA
Fluid advertising pocket lighter with aluminium case & insert
Fluid advertising table lighter with aluminium case & insert
WW2 era fluid pocket lighter with steel case & insert & owner attached emblems
Showing the simple yet effective cam system & also the tube to the left of the slint screw to hold spare flints
The rarer chrome cannon fluid table lighter
Knight fluid table lighter
Others
Unusual lighter that burns as a result of fluid & 2 different metals being exposed to the air
Looking into the lighter - showing the 2 different metals - the W shaped silver coloured piece & the black ball
"Berkeley" fluid pocket lighter with aluminium case & steel insert (?? c. 1950's)
Insert & cam mechanism
Showing the closed fuel cell bottom
Berkeley made by the Flashlight Company of America, Jersey City, N.J.
Airflam - a lighter with no moving parts!!
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
open
c. late 1940's "Golden Wheel" miniature liftarm fluid lighter
bottom
"Metro" fluid pocket lighter from Paragon Products Co., Toledo, Ohio fr
bottom
"Strike-a-lite" hand painted bone china fluid pocket lighter
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Negaur Bulldog
bottom stamp
?? c. 1941 ?? "Spitfire"
Modern trench art lighter made by Tom "Pyro" Prylinski - a very knowledgeable (& super lovely) longtome collector
The lighter & Tom's business card - too funny!
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Nimrod pipelighter with all it's original packaging & paperwork
Solar powered lighter by RadioShack/Tandy
Instruction sheet
c. 1940's?? - unusual very heavy (?? pot metal) lighter from Bor-Lenz
Bottom stamp
c. 1940 "Miss Cutie" table lighter marked Patent Pending MISS CUTIE Made in U.S.A. ALLBRIGHT,N.Y.
Apart
Bottom stamp
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     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)