A Masterclass in Vintage Dunhill Lighters by LighterLuxe Head - Jack Weetman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Something new in our Hong Kong store ... we're taking over LighterLuxe's stock of vintage Dunhill lighters and we invited Jack Weetman himself to give us an overview of the history of one-handed lighters and Dunhill's early masterpieces.
Check out the lighters at our store in Hong Kong in the Landmark Central.
Check out Jack's collection at lighterluxe
Art Brown in the Diamond district Nyc has a wonderful collection of vintage and new DuPont’s and dunhill lighters. Bought a vintage ligne 2 this year for my 20th
Quick search 12USD in 1939 would be about 262USD today.
Still way cheaper than today's prices.
@@valdikamenarov8630yeah that would cost much more today
I hate to say Jack is incorrect about Rope Lighters. The rope is a piece of slow match and does not need lighter fluid to operate, it is light and simply just glows as an ember until extinguished.
i agree with you just where close to post the same thought i collect rope lighters from the time they where used with a match ... such like match safe /vesta cases combinated with a tinder/rope also cigarette cases they where used in the time 1880 to arround 1910 the rope was used in fact matches where expensive and it was elegant to pas the glowing rope case over to give some one a light. it did changed when . Carl Auer von Welsbach invented the modern flintstone this was the start for the modern gasoline lighters.
@@henriktress2063To add further to your posts ,soldiers would make these lighters from brass bullet casings ,guys in prisons also would make them with an old piece of wood and rope from a mop, they were allowed to purchase wheels and flints in the prison stores . I personally during my service carried a zippo along with a flint match everywhere I went even at sea .
🤓☝️ i hate to say Jack is incorrect duhhh… uhm eeerrrr… yappa yappa im a nerd 🤓☝️☝️
@@greed750lmao
Nice video. Enjoyed hearing the history of those lighters too.
jack - there were 100's of one handed petrol lighter automatic models manufactured before the invention of the liftarm in 1919 by wise & greenwood of London
Wow I spent so much time writing my comment only to see you say the same thing in such few words 😂
I don't think rope lighters were intended to be used with fluid
I wanna be a lighter collector to smoke my weed with
Parker is NOT how Dunhill started. Dunhill was in business long before, and Parker was their brand to sell pipes that did not make their strickt quality controls. Also called seconds. But still fantastic pipes !
Host is sitting in front of 20000 ugly plaid jackets, and wears the same. HAHAHA. The plaid design reminds me of Army mattresses.
LAAAARGE Plaid Jacket and Polo shirt ? Hmmmmmmmm
I`ve seen a Dunhill Rollagas pipe lighter with the flame exiting the front for easier lighting of pipes but apart from one example i can`t see any others, could you confirm whether they make a modified nozzle in order to change a standard Rollagas lighter into a side flame version?
The IMCorona unique clone from Japan is extremely high quality if anyone is looking for a new pipe lighter. Been using the same one for eight years and it is sweet
Actually the Dunhill Unique was not the first lift arm lighter.
Always an interesting and informative video..thank you Mark!!!!!!
Feels like an episode of antiques road show and the guy is trying to get some big bucks 😂
The dancer..is it the same on roll royces symbols?
Sally Rand here was a few decades after Eleanor Thornton who was the model that Charles Sykes mused for the "spirit of Ecstasy"
supercool
Jack is completely spent
I found a skinny cognac camus Napoleon? It's probably bs but I have no knowledge about it?
Great to hear Jack sharing his deep knowledge of the history of lighters!! Very cool.
whats that jacket
Cool video. Love my hobnail dunhill. I use it every day. Not bad for a 50 year old lighter. Would've love to have seen one of the famous aquarium lighters ❤
Please get this guy back on the show
Great video
Japan's Im Corona make lighter's that are just as good as the Dunhill. If you don't think so, then ask yourself why Dunhill had Im Corona make the Japanese Dunhill for them. The Japanese Dunhill Slim has the exact operating mechanism as the Im corona pipe Magie. Im corona has continued their quality on the lighters they make today. Not so with Dunhill as they redesigned the new rollagas for cheaper manufacture.
Dang I just posted the same sentiment
@@keithblume5159👍👍
Great work again👍
Great vid
Very cool video, but that one dude is just standing there and out of breath while wiping sweat off his forehead.
Like legit is he dying just talking there?
I’m sorry but the “first lighter that could be used one handed” is absolute balarky. They just have the first *patented* lift arm lighter. Any serious collector collecting before the 1920s (1923 is the year dunhill launched their very first in handed operable lighter known as the “unique” and this was also a “rope lighter”) knows that there are many very unique lighters from this time period that were indeed one hand operable with practice. But they were simply not mass produced, patented, or commercially successful as the dunhill lighters were. Back then it was incredibly common for people to creatively create lighters out of various discarded objects and there were plenty out there that could be used with the one hand.
Edit: I just wanted to take a moment to point out how absolutely cool it is that there is a tinderbox flintlock sitting there on the table. Now THAT is an old lighter my friend.
I like your suit man, pretty plaid design and very ugly looking.
This guy is so breathless and sweating just talking ,maybe he should start collecting asthma inhalers instead .
@@ragingmouse5547 raging mice are weak
Also didn’t park lighter have a lift arm around the same time period?