VintageLighters Blog

Hello again collectors. Check out our newest selection of vintage Zippos up on the Vintage Lighter Exchange. www.vintagelighters.com

Hello collectors! There are some new lighters up on the Vintage Lighter Exahnge in the “Various Vintage” section for you to checkout or buy. There are also some new articles posted in the information and articles section.

For all you collectors interested in Dunhills, we have some nice ones up on the site today. Check them out here.

Hello collectors,

We have some beautiful and unusual new Vintage Evans lighters up on the site today. Check them out.

www.VintageLighters.com/category/evans.html

With lots of great features to boot. For all of you curious and/or collectors of the vintage lighter industry, take a look at some of the things we’ve been working so hard on bringing you. Aside from the lighters for sale (more going up just about every day), there is a whole section on vintage lighter information with some great articles featured from past newsletters of the OTLS Lighter club.

We hope you enjoy it!

A selection of new Scripto lighters are going up on the Vintagelighters.com site today. They should be up and viewable by around 12:00 noon EST.

After a major revamp of the Vintagelighters.com website we’re finally getting back into to blog-o-sphere here and updating the world of vintage lighter collecting and such.

Check back soon for updates on the changes we’ve made and what we’re offering in the future.

With a deep and heartfelt bow to Mr. Urban Cummings and his magnificent work “Ronson, The World’s Greatest Lighter” I reproduce for you here a paraphrased excerpt of figure number 297 - Walking Cane.

At least three versions of the WALKING CANE with built-in lighter were made. (The Original) is the personal property of Louis V. Aronson II. Other versions contain a chromium plated lighter, and although the cover plates appear to be the same, different lighter mechanisms were used. It is assumed that the gold plated version was the original model. At some point the decision must have been made to use an existing lighter mechanism because one chromium plated version appears to have the same mechanism as that used on the “Beauticase”. Another chrome plated version uses the Old Standard mechanism. The original model is a cane with umbrella handle. The later versions. with the chrome plated fitment, were used on both umbrella handle canes and on straight canes made with exotic wood such as ebony and trimmed with ivory or plastic.

EXTREMELY RARE.

Copyright, Urban Cummings, “Ronson, The World’s Greatest lighter”

 

A beautiful piece of work by any standard. We have a Ronson Walking Cane for sale on the International Vintage Lighter Exchange. We are very curious to know how many of these there are floating around out there. Especially the ones with the gold plated lighter plate. Let us know, should you care to reply.

 June 25, 2007 ‑ July 03, 2007 • Event Venue:  

Sheraton Premiere at Tysons Corner
8661 Leesburg Pike
Vienna, Virginia, United States (next to Washington DC)
Phone (703) 448-1234 • Fax (703) 610-8293

The 21st Annual On The LIGHTER Side Convention is dedicated to the hobby of collecting lighters. This is an annual gathering of collectors from around the world who show and display lighters from the 1800’s to present, all makes, models, shapes and sizes. The event brings in hundreds of members from the US, Japan, England, Germany etc. Over 80 tables are set up for buying, selling and swapping. Some of the world’s rarest lighters will be on display including Cartier, Dunhill, Ronson, Tiffany and Zippos. Free appraisals will be offered to the public on Saturday, June 30, 2007 from 10:00AM to 3:00PM. Come on by and bring your lighters!
Group rate available until May 26, 2007. Subject to availability.

For more information/Reservations: CLICK HERE, or call Sheraton Premier at: (703) 448-11234 and mention “OTLS” for special rates.

OTLS was founded in 1983 with 3 members. We currently have approximately 900 members in 16 countries. This club is for collectors of any type lighter — Ronson, Zippo, Evans, European, etc. We also have a few members who collect other categories of tobacciana, such as ash trays, smoking stands, Case & Zippo knives (Case Knife Co. is now owned by Zippo).

The club has a bi-monthly newsletter. In addition to the 6 issues, the March issue always contains a separate “Convention Letter” with details of our annual convention. Our annual convention is always in June, in different cities.

If you are interested in joining the OTLS lighter club, visit their website at www.OTLS.com.

 a fantastic idea here .. a great way for collectors to communicate and share resources .. best of luck