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Vintage Lighters


Welcome to my vintage lighters section. You'll have seven galleries of vintage cigarette lighters to check out. Also some vintage electric cigar lighters and other vintage lighters.

You'll find some vintage pocket lighters, along with some advertising pocket lighters, and a few vintage cigarette case lighters in other galleries. I also added a tobacco accessories gallery that goes along with collecting vintage lighters!

eveready lighter

On the right we a scarce 1930's Eveready Lighter. The Eveready product logo is made from plastic celluliod. The lighter is only 3 inches long, and about 1/4 of an inche wide. It has pat pdg USA St Paul Minnesota printed on the inside shalft. I'm thinking that is where the shalft and lighter part was made? The flashlight cover may have been made by Eveready? If so, it would be the real deal.

Eveready did have a big line of products back in the day, beside flashlights and batteries. Looks to be a real Eveready logo. This is the first one I have seen. Looks like the Eveready flashlight from the 30's. Close up you can see veritcal lines on the body, just like the Eveready flashlight.

I sent a photo of the lighter and info to a - so called lighter expert. She said - she thinks it's just an advertisment for Eveready. So just thinking, mean she isn't sure. I sent her some more questions and she never got back to me. So for now, it's a mystery.

Anyone that has any information on this, please send me an email. I'll be happy to add the information here and give you the credit. I think we can all say - this one in a real survivor for being so small, and could have been easily lost over the years.

The vintage lighters you see here are from the early 1900's through the 60's. Happy Hunting.

First Cigarette Lighter

The first lighters were invented in the 16th century and were converted flintlock pistols that used gunpowder. One of the first lighters was invented by a German Chemist named Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner in 1823 and was often called Döbereiner’s Lamp. This lighter worked by a reaction of hydrogen to platinum sponge, which gave off a great amount of heat. The device was very large and highly dangerous and fell out of production by the end of the 19th century.

The patenting of Ferrocerium (often misidentified as flint) by Carl Auer von Welsbach in 1903 has made modern lighters possible. When scratched, it produces a large spark which is responsible for lighting the fuel of many lighters, and is suitably inexpensive for use in disposable items.
(Source - Wikipedia)