Vintage Cigarette Lighters

Lighters

U Products

'The Flame' Sports-Liter

1950
KaK-0BB

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U. S. Match Co.

Gary, IN

U.S. Match Striker Lighter

c. 1930s
IAL-00G

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United Findings Co.

Attleboro, MA

United Table Lighter

1955 - Wooden base

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Universal Products Co.

Los Angeles, CA

Universal Products Aluminum Block Table Lighter

There are many, many aluminum block lighters, but table versions are seldom seen. c. early 1950s
KbK-0AI

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Uranus

Uranus Telescoping Cigarette / Pipe Lighter

c. 1955 The telescope is operated by revolving the small windscreen to raise and lower it as shown in the additional photos. An identical lighter was also produced as the 'Super' by Baccy-Lite, Japan.
KAK-00B

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Valet SEE: Pak-Liter Co.

Victory Novelty Manufacturing Co.

Cincinnati, OH & Newport, KY

Victory .30 Caliber Cartridge Lighter

c. 1919 Made from a U.S. .30 caliber round.
KaK-0B0

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Vis-U-Lite

Japan

Vis-U-Lite Lighter

c. early 1960s
AUL-0B0

Viscount SEE: Rogers

Waco

Waco Slot-N-Lighter

The mechanism can be set to 'play' the slot only, or to light the lighter as well. The lighter is piezoelectric ignited butane. c.mid-1960s.
HZK-0FC

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Wagner

Wagner 'Eagle Beak' Aluminum Lighter

c. 1950
JdK-0BD

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Waldorf

Switzerland

Waldorf Roller Lighter

This lighter has the look of an aluminum block lighter but is brass and seems to be cast rather than drilled out.
ISL-0AA

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Wales Novelty Corp. / Amsco Products, Inc.

New York, NY

Wales Lift Arm Pocket Lighter

c. late 1920s
KOK-0AB

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Wales

Japan

Wales Automatic Lighter

c. early to mid 1950s - part of a series of States lighters. This series is all very nice quality lighters as can be seen in the two texas lighters - even with almost all of the enamel gone, the second one still looks nice.

Warner

Glendale, CA

Warner 130 Lighter

Wask

Mexico

Wask Windproof Lighter

One of the few lighters made in Mexico
LHK-0A0

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Weston

Ball-O Lighters

There were several styles of the 'Ball-O' lighters, such as 'Ball-O-Flint'. The ball at the top of the lighters may be removed to open an area enclosed with a cork where extra flints may be stored. Unlike most of these tiny tube lighters with a wick for the flame, these have a "pocket" and the sparks fall into the pocket to ignite it - this pocket is the same as used on catalytic lighters such as the New Method and Ray-O-Lite. Alcohol (methanol) was probably the intended fuel for these lighters rather than 'petrol' lighter fluid. Weston describes it as, "Made with a special wick to create a torchlike arch of flame...". c. early through mid-1940s

Flint Storage    Flint Storage    Store Display   Patent 1 pg 1   Patent 1 pg 2   Patent 2 pg 1   Patent 2 pg 2

Weston 'Lipstick' Lighters

Weston made a lot of these in various sizes, styles, and model names in the late 1940s and through the 1950s.

Store Display

Weston Bullet Lighter on Keychain

This is identical to an unbranded 'Made in Occupied Japan' lighter - with this version made and marked by Weston in the USA - the Occupied Japan version was likely manufactured by them in Japan at a much lower price - something we now know as outsourcing.
AEL-0A0

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Weston Hotpoint Electric Water Heater Lighter

Figural Hotpoint Electric Hot Water Heater lighter
FQL-0A0

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Weston Lantern Table Lighter w/ Wheelbarrow Ashtray

c. mid-late 1940s This table lighter has its works furnished by the internals and cover of a 'Bullet' lighter. This was often sold as a set with a matching design wheelbarrow ash tray or a coal bucket ash tray.
KAK-0AC/KOK-0BA/CeL-00E

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