Featured Ca. 1925 Solid Brass Dunhill Lift-Arm Cigarette Lighter

Bought this at the flea-market this morning and spent the rest of the morning fixing it. Had to clean out the dried flint-powder, then clean it, polish it, and then replace a new wick, flint, and a new flint-spring (the old one was god-knows-where)...Anyway. The results are as you see here...

 

Done a bit of poking around. It's a Dunhill 'Wafer' model from ca. 1930.

 

Good find, I love these lighters.

 

So do I, but they're tricky to find. And when I do find them they're usually either the really ugly ones that nobody else wants, or they don't work for any number of reasons. This one works pretty good

 

I bought a solid gold (9ct) Roller gas Dunhill about 10 years ago, hallmarked for 1953, still works fine, the problem is I gave up smoking (almost) so now I never use it

 

I don't smoke at all, but I just think they're cool. I love the design of old-fashioned lighters.

 

After much, much, MUCH cleaning...

...now, you can actually READ "Dunhill" on the snuffer-arm...


Works excellently, as you can see...

 

Nice job

 

The lighter looks great after all of the cleaning.

 

Thanks, it was not easy!! Especially cleaning behind the snuffer-arm spring. I had to remove it, clean it and then somehow put it back. I managed, but I'd rather not try having to do that again anytime soon...