Vintage Cigarette Lighters

Lighters

H

Japan

H (brand) Automatic Lighter

c. early-mid 1950s States Series lighter - New Jersey

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Hadson

Hadson Moonlite Lighter

HPK-0CE

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Hadson Automatic Lighter

Hadson Butane Lighter

 JIK-00E

Hagenauer

Austrian artistic lighters - See Article: Hagenauer Modernistic Figural Lighters

Hagenauer Modernistic Figural Lighters

1920s

Hahway / HW

Hahway Semi-Automatic Lighter

Patented in 1914, Hahways were produced prior to the date of patent issuance. Many people wonder about the little holes in the top; they are for changing flint. Push a needle through the holes with the lighter closed; Open the lighter; The flint retaining spring is now trapped by the pin and flint may be easily changed. Well, not 'easily', but it does help; these weren't really mode for a modern, round flint but a new flint will work just fine once you get it in place.

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Sterling Silver
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Hahway Wheel Lighter

c. 1912-1914

Hahway Striker Lighter

'Another View' shows the Striker Wand and the French Tax Seal on the side of the lighter.
IAK-0BG

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Hamilton

Hamilton Ship's Wheel Lighter

c. mid-1940s

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Hamilton Airplane Lighter

c. 1929

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Hamilton Knight Lighter

c. 1952

 Patent

Handee-Lite

Handee-Lite Plastic Tube Lighter

JIK-00G

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Harvester

Japan

Harvester VU-Lighter

 KOK-0BA

Harvey Avedon

See Article: Harvey Avedon: Mr. StrikALite

Harvey Avedon Lighter

c. 1942 - 1952

Havalite

Havalite Pencil Lighter

Pencil lighters were produced beginning in 1929 and originally sold as A. G. Stevenson Co. lighters (the inventor was A.G. Stevenson) and occasionally these can be found with "Pat Pend" on them - again, prior to HavALite and the issue of the patent.

Patent    Patent

See the article The Havalite Bakelite Pencil Lighter

Helios

Helios Lighter

1938

Patent

Henry W. Maybaum

Philadelphia, PA

Reliable Pocket Lamp

This is one of the earliest pocket lighters - almost a "pre-lighter", if you consider it in terms of what we now think of as a lighter. c. early 1890s

This was a semi-automatic amorce (literally, "blasting") cap lighter - the amorce cap being used for ignition. Cap pistol caps can still be used by modifying them for this type lighter. The caps were spooled onto the bottom post (in one of the additional pictures) and fed through the top where they were ignited. A wick came out of a fuel chamber which used kerosene, gasoline, or naptha as fuel (lighter fluid, today, but there was no such thing at that time). Somewhat similar models were made at the time by Koopman's Magic Pocket Lamp and Little Gem.

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Hilton

Japan

Hilton 'Excellent Regular' Automatic Lighter

c. mid-1950s Baja California 'States' series lighter.
ATM-0AE

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Hexagon SEE: Emson Products

Hiram Cigarettes

Hiram Cigarettes Wheel Lighter

c. 1920
KLK-00G

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Hollis SEE: Rayno

Hollywood

Hollywood 'The General' Aluminum Block Lighter

c. 1940s
IWL-0AA

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Hurricane

Bradford, PA

Hurricane Bakelite Windproof Lighter

c. 1939 The patent is for the case.
AaL-0AE

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Hurricane Lighter, Inc.

320 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Hurricane Lighter

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Hy Glo Products Co.

Owosso, MI - Went out of business in 1949

Hy Glo Table Lighter

Hy Glo also made inserts for a number of lighters sold under other names.
FQL-0A0

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Hy Glo Lipstick Lighter

Top jeweled with 'sapphires', 'diamonds', and 'pearl' - all faux, of course.
FdL-0A0

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Hy Glo Lucite Table Lighter

c. 1949 - same as the Strik-A-Lite lighter except Hy Glo insert. This example has a flower carved in the lucite base.
GKL-0AC

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