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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 170524, member: 25&quot;]I suspect the lighter is 1930s. I found the link before I read enough of the post to see you knew already.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_College,_Melbourne" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_College,_Melbourne" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_College,_Melbourne</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea if this works in Australia, but the easy way not to pay any admission fees at antiques fairs, etc, is to have a few business cards printed as Shangas Antiques or whatever. </p><p>Show the card and say &quot;Trade&quot; to doorkeeper. Trade buyers are usually admitted free, they may or may not keep the card, if they do, expect notifications of other fairs, but it is cheaper than paying AU$5 a time to admire middle aged fogeys in their natural habitat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do remember that people who choose flea markets on a sunny day day are well on the way to fogeydom themselves and may in time become an old fogey like me, and also require more than one flick to get started.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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