The Mars Rover 2020 Collectible Lighter continues a more than 50-year legacy of Zippo celebrating U.S. achievements in space. The company has made lighters with NASA and aerospace contractor ...

Judith Sanders keeps 5,000 cigarette lighters in her home. That is more than twice the population of her small town of Quitman, Texas. Whenever Sanders attends a collectible lighter convention and ...

It’s a catalytic lighter that uses platinum to ignite methanol vapors. The concept shown in the video below is platinum’s catalyst properties with some types of flammable gasses.

Nurse Diane Denton had seen one too many children suffering from burns they received in fires started with cigarette lighters, so she wrote the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission asking that ...

Vintage Lighter Renewal From Zero To Hero. Posted: March 2, 2025 | Last updated: March 2, 2025. A legendary Zippo go from rusted and forgotten to a stunning masterpiece!

Lighters stamped “Occupied Japan” (from approximately the early 1950s) that were worth $1 20 years ago now sell for as much as $200, she adds. To learn more For a history of Ronson lighters ...

Rather popular as collectibles, there are societies of lighter collectors in the United States and Great Britain. Values depend on maker, with Zippo, Dunhill and Ronson among the most collectible.

Zippo has released its "2019 Collectible of the Year," a limited edition metal lighter commemorating the 1969 Apollo 11 lunar mission. "Zippo celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first time ...

Restoration. Fantastic Remodeling Of A Rare Vintage Lighter. Posted: March 2, 2025 | Last updated: March 2, 2025. An astonishing transformation as this extremely rare lighter gets a second life!

In the early 20th century, smokers ruining their lungs could do so with the help of a nifty little gadget called the catalytic lighter. It looked like a ...

Vintage cigarette accessories are shedding the stigma associated with lighting up, and becoming highly addictive décor.

Smoking seems to have lost favor, but smoking accessories are hot collectibles. Lighters, cigarette packs, cigar labels, pipes, ashtrays, advertisements and cigarette boxes are just some of the ...