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Edward Reed

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Not particularly rare but highly collectible. WWII era Evans Spitfire cigarette pocket lighter #19023. This one painted Olive Drab Green. still works. I like the shape and that its thin and slips into the pocket easily.
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ReynardTheFox

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I have a couple of solid brass zippos which i use sometimes but I have a Ronson whirlwind which I've had for 35 years. I prefer them to zippos. I like the striking action, it just feels more mechanical.
 
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I have a couple of Nimrod Pipeliter's First patented in the 1940's by a company making aircraft fasteners, thus the machined bolt look. The one on the right is the Executive model with goldtone finish & faux alligator leather wrap.

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The pipe is from the 1940's, a Curtis Custom model 100 made by the Curtis Aircraft Co.
 
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1970's Peterson Cliplite butane pipe lighter/tamper. Most likely made for Peterson Pipes by DART. Full metal body, no plastic. Pipe tamper cap unscrews to access butane port for filling.

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Parker Pens also made a slightly bigger & better version for Dunhill.
 
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IM Corona has been around since the 1920's & the lift arm lighter was first patented in 1925. The first production lighters were made using a mustard tin for the body.

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A pair of IM Corona Old Boy lighters. The Old Boy configuration wasn't patented until 1981, containing over 100 precision made parts.

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The pipe is a first generation Kirsten Aristocrat. Patent was applied for in 1938, the first generation was discontinued in 1958. Based in Seattle, WA the influence of the aircraft industry is easy to see.

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A pair of 1970’s Firebird Pipette butane lighters by Colibri. These are great lighters for both pipes & cigars as the flame is adjustable down to a soft flame for pipes or up to almost torch-like for cigars. The originally came in a plastic jewelry-type plastic box & if you look hard sometimes they can still be found NOS. One time available in various finishes the rare tortoise shell finish is rare today.

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The pipe is a 1960’s Flying Disc UFO made by the Italian pipemaker Lorenzo.

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A 1960's Marxman Modern butane lighter. A Japanese clone of the Dunhill Rollagas & the DuPont lighters.

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The pipe is a 1940's - 1950's cased Meerschaum billiard with a green Catalan stem. A group 1 size, perfect for Flake, brownie or crumble kake pipe tobacco.

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The pipe is a first generation Kirsten Aristocrat. Patent was applied for in 1938, the first generation was discontinued in 1958. Based in Seattle, WA the influence of the aircraft industry is easy to see.


I did a feature on Kirsten 20-some years ago, when their retail store was at Fisherman’s Terminal on Salmon Bay, in Seattle. I understand it has since relocated to a spot just south of the baseball stadium.

Long before my time Kirsten was a household name out that way. I’ve seen photos of the neon sign at their old manufacturing plant, which I have attempted (without luck, so far) to share here.
 
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I did a feature on Kirsten 20-some years ago, when their retail store was at Fisherman’s Terminal on Salmon Bay, in Seattle. I understand it has since relocated to a spot just south of the baseball stadium.

Long before my time Kirsten was a household name out that way. I’ve seen photos of the neon sign at their old manufacturing plant, which I have attempted (without luck, so far) to share here.
They are still in business last I heard, being run by either the daughter or granddaughter; I forget which. I only have the one Kirsten. I would like to have a bent Kirsten. Don't know if you are a pipesmoker or not but pipes made from metal, ceramic, porcelain, or Bakelite/Catalan don't breathe very well & tend to smoke wet.
 
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I gave up tobacco altogether 15 years ago. Prior to that I had been a two-plus pack a day cigarette fiend for 30-plus years.

I puffed on a pipe a few times way back when, and smoked maybe a dozen cigars.

Such is the persistence of nicotine addiction that even now I occasionally get an urge for a smoke. If it weren’t so deadly, I’d be smoking still. I liked the drug effect, that kick in the nerves. I found it helped me focus.
 
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Funny, in the next big city's main station, they indeed got the classic Clipper metal lighters, which I found out today! So I now finally got one and we will see, if they really brake down so fast, as many people say. Costing 12,95 EUR, every metal one.


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PS:
What's not written anywhere:
When you tilt it 90°+, you get a flame boost.
 
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Levallois

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My collection of Dunhill Rollagas barley finish dating to 1-58, 2-58, 6-62, 6-63, 12-63, 9-64, 4-65, and one pipe-lighter special with hobnail finish dating to 1976-1983.
 
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Actually can't complain about my metal Clipper. Fully reliable.

I got an auxiliary exemplar, in case of, but didn't need it, so far.
 
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NOW, I finally found a weak point on metal Clipper!!

The ignition wheel's plastic hook starts to fail, because it naturally sometimes gets touched by the flame.
 
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