Vintage Cigarette Lighters

Machined Aluminum Block Lighters

Esco Aluminum Lighter

1940s

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Farrelite Aluminum Block Lighter

c. late 1940s
BZL-00G

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Feather Lite Aluminum Block Lighter

KSM-0A0

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Flamidor Senior Lighter

c. late 1940s An aluminum block lighter.

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Garrick USA Aluminum Block Lighter

c. late 1940s
LQK-0AC

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Gesch Aluminum Table Lighter On Wheels

This is a strange lighter on wheels that do roll... for no apparent reason. Circa late 1940s or early 1950s a fairly standard aluminum block lighter - aside from the unique design.

Golden Wheel Airflighter Lighter

An aluminum block lighter - c. late1940s.
IJK-0AA

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Gray Aluminum Block Lighter

c. late 1940s - early 1950s
KcK-00G

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Hollis - SEE: Rayno - Dura-Lite

Hollywood 'The General' Aluminum Block Lighter

c. 1940s
IWL-0AA

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'The Jackson' Aluminum Block Lighter

late 1940s - early 1950s. Mirror finish.

Sharpo Aluminum Block Lighter - Josephson & Sharp

The 'Automatic' version of this lighter is very unusual. First, not too many aluminum block lighters were automatic. Even more interesting is the mechanism for opening the top: when the side roller is pushed, as though to strike the flint, it moves back just enough to release a catch allowing the top to spring open; in the same motion one can turn the wheel, generating the spark that lights the lighter. This is especially handy because no lighter always lights. Most semi-automatics (as this really is) will then require closing the lighter to try again. With this method, one just turns the spark wheel again - no need to close the top.

KK Aluminum Block Lighter

JIM-00H

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KM Lighter

CIL-0AC

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Knapp Aluminum Block Lighter

c. mid 1940s

Lincolite Aluminum Block Lighter

HXL-0AB

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Luco Aluminum Block Lighter

FTM-000I

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Maente Aluminum Block Lighter

KJM-00I

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Majestic Aluminum Lighter

Aluminum block lighter c. late 1940s
HTK-0AI

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Mercury Aluminum Block Lighter

LIL-0AH

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Metal Lite FlinTop Lighter

Milion Aluminum Block Lighter

2 slightly different versions

Nasco Aluminum Lighter

c. late 1940s
EPL-0AE

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Nordad Aluminum Block Lighter

This company went a bit overboard on drilling holes in this uniquely shaped lighter. There are 2 holes for filling in the bottom and one on the front - and it has a spare flint capsule on it - something seldom seen in aluminum block lighters. c. late 1940s - early 1950s

Nu-Line Aluminum Block Lighter

HDM-0B0

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Oriole Aluminum Lighter

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Lord Oxford Aluminum Block Lighter - Oxford-Pyle

Lord Oxford lighters are best known for the semi-automatic lighters, but also produced a 'flick' type (below left). Produced from the mid-1940s through the 1950s.

Patent

See the article: Metal Mania - The Lord Oxford

Late 1940s
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Paragon Products 'Metro' Aluminum Block Lighter

KaN-0AE

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Penguin Cygnus Aluminum Block Lighter

Some of these were of anodized aluminum to produce more colorful lighters. c. mid-late 1950s The Panagra lighter is an advertising lighter for the Panagra DC-8 airplane which it had just put into service. Panagra refers to Pan American Grace Airways which provided pioneering passenger and freight services in South America and was the first US airline to operate over such great distances. Panagra began in September 1928 and was purchased by Braniff in 1966.

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Penguin Oliver Aluminum Block Lighter

c. mid-late 1950s
DHL-0AE

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Quercia Commodore Lighter

c. late 1940s. An aluminum block lighter
KPM-0BH

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(Rayno) Dura-Lite Lighter

Semi-automatic push button type aluminum block lighter. c. 1946 This same lighter was originally sold and advertised as a Hollis lighter and later ads show both Hollis and Rayno with the lighter named DuraLite. The patent for the lighter was assigned to Lapeer Manufacturing of Detroit Michigan originally.

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