Vintage Cigarette Lighters

Lighters

KK

KK Aluminum Block Lighter

JIM-00H

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KKW

Japan

C.M.C. / K.K.W 'Photo Flash' Camera Lighter

Made in Occupied Japan circa 1948 and sold as the "Photo Flash" Table Lighter. The camera has a removable tripod as well as an operational remote release that ca sues the camera to light. The shutter button (or remote, if attached) causes the lighter to pop open, spark, and light. There is a tiny compass on the front. f-Stop marking surround the lens. The lighter is not a working camera, however; just a facsimile.
HQK-0CA

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K.K.W. Butane Camera Lighter

This later version from the same company is made in China.
JYK-00E

KM

England

KM Lighter

CIL-0AC

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K.W. - Karl Wieden

KW Automatic Lighter

The Auto-Tank lighters had cotton wadding, as most lighters, in about 1/2 of the fuel space. The bottom part, however, was a petrol tank which, of course, held a lot more fuel. There was a wicking device that would let the liquid fuel gradually be absorbed into the wadding. This resulted in a significantly longer lasting fuel supply. c. early-1930s.

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KW Wheel Lighter

c. 1920s

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KW Lift Arm Lighter

c. 1920s Has the KW signature liquid fuel tank in base.
GBL-0BG

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KW Wheel Lighter

c. 1930

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KW Flip Lighter

This KW has a dual fuel tank. One tank is the tradition tank filled with wadding and wick. Below it, in the section removed for filling both tanks,is a liquid fuel tank with wick material around the fill screw which allows the liquid to gradually migrate into the wadding. This allows for a substantial amount of extra fuel and more time between fillings. Late 1930s - through 1940s. The lighter is operated by using the thumb to flip the spark wheel cover to the top and open the top at the same time as producing the spark.

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KW 700 Squeeze Lighter

c. 1934

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KW Flip-Top Lighter

Unusual for this style lighter, this one has a liquid fuel tank to supply and supplement the tank with wadding in it so it need not be refilled so often.

KHK-0AB

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KW Unusual Striker Lighter

This unusual lighter has a dual fuel tank and, more unusual is the way the striker operates. A flint strip was on the cap (you can see the empty slot) and the round collar around the wick is struck against the cap to produce the igniting spark. While the lighter itself is not branded, it is unmistakeable from the Patent.  c. 1915-1917
AWL-0CA

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KW Heart Lighter

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Kanamaru

Japan

Oxford Butane Lighter

GXK-00G

Karat

Austria

Karat Squeeze Lighter

The Karat lighters came with a metal base that it could be slipped into for use as a stand - table lighter.

Patent

Kaschie

Karl Schneider founded the company in Nuremberg 1919. 1923 they also started to produce lighters until 1963. The company name changed from Kaschie to Kay-Ess at the end of WW2

Kaschie 35 Lighter

This model has a dual fuel tank. c. 1933

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Kaschie Lighter

Made from the 1930a - this example c. late 1940s Model K33. This example is stamped 'West Germany' which placed it right after WW2. For maintaining the fuel supply and flint the bottom panel slides off to reveal the fuel tank and flint access - see additional photos for this.
HaK-0DF

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Kaschie Bullet Lighter

First made in the mid-1930s and probably through the early 1950s.
IGK-0AC

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Kaschie Candlestick Table Lighter

c. 1940s

Kaschie Dome Lighter

c. 1936 through the post WW2 period Models K370 / K380. One of the lighters below has the insignia of the United States Air Force Europe on it - as pictured here - and is, of course, a post-war lighter.

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