Vintage Cigarette Lighters

Lighters

Accu

Japan

Accu Piezoelectric Jet Butane Pistol Lighter

LeK-00D

Adamian

Adamian Pistol Lighter

c. 1913

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Aero-Liter Manufacturing Co.

448 N. Main St., Wichita, KS

Aero-Lite Aluminum Block Lighter

c. late 1940s - early 1950s

Airflam

Germany

Airflam Windproof Catalytic Lighter

Advertised as the lighter with no moving parts. The lighter was fully automatic - open the top and a flame was produced - sometimes necessary to use a wave of the hand to move some air into the chamber. The lighter worked because there was a tiny air hole in the chamber which used Methanol as fuel. A framework with platinum catalyst and fine wires is embedded in the chamber. As soon as air and Methanol vapors combine in the chamber, the catalyst heated, heating the wires, and igniting the fuel vapors. c. early 1950s this example and other models produced through the 1960s.
LYK-0B0-S

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Airflam Magique Catalytic Lighter

c. early 1950s through the 1960s. Imported from Germany and distributed by Murphy Reier, Inc,Barrington, IL the lighter came with a second tube with the catalytic insert in it and a bottle of fluid (methanol)
BLM-00F

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AirLite

England

AirLite Aluminum Block Lighter w/ Perspex

Interesting aluminum block lighter with a piece of Perspex inserted between the base and lighter body.
CWL-0BA

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Aladin

USA

This size lighter was frequently used a prizes in bubble gum machines. The lighter is resting on a Quarter.
HQL-00F

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Aladdin - SEE: Metalfield

Albert

Japan

Albert Super DeLuxe Automatic Lighter

Smoky Mountains National Park - this lighter was apparently produced in conjunction with the various 'States' lighters in the early to mid-1950s as it is the same exact design and look as those produced by a number of other companies for the series.
KbK-0AE

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Allbright

Negbaur, NY

Allbright Miss Cutie Lighter

c. 1940 Made in Negbaur, NY - possibly BY Negbaur with only the insert being Allbright.

Allbright Tube/Lipstick Lighter

Allbright Compact Lighter

c. 1939 Same lighter and same patent made also as Plaza and Parker

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Alpco

Japan

Alpco Automatic Lighter

Good quality Japanese import with extremely heavy lacquer over the plating of the lighter; while the lacquer tends to discolor, it has done a great job of remaining in place and protecting the surface. c. mid-late 1950s.
KAK-00B

Altenpohl & Pilgram

Altenpohl & Pilgram Lighter

This is a double tank lighter. There is the standard cotton filled tank and an extra tank that is filled with liquid fuel and then has a wick to bleed that liquid fuel gradually into the cotton as it dries out somewhat from use. This significantly increases the fuel supply available and, therefore, the number of lights before refueling again.

This is a lighter type that could no longer be manufactured today; it is simply dangerous! If you have a finger or any part of your skin at the back of the lighter when the button is pushed to light it, the snap up action of the top, which meets the base behind itself, will give a really nasty pinch. c. mid-1930s - early 1940s.
KTK-0CB

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Zunder No. 60 Lighter (frequently misidentified as Lunder)

c. 1940s through early 1950s

German Patent    German Patent

Zunder 1000

c. mid-1930s. 'Zunder 1000' translates from German as '1000 sparks'.

American Rocket Products, Inc.

2907 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA

American Rocket Windproof Lighter

c. 1941

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American Scientific Instrument Company

NY, NY

American Everliter Aluminum Block Lighter

late 1940s
KVK-0BG

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Ames

Ames Aluminum Block Lighter

c. 1945

 Patent