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Rondelight
Lighter with Ashtray
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter from the mid-1930s is one of the rarer models.
This model
combines a round pottery ashtray (missing on this model) resting
on the black metal base and a baby Rondelight lighter perched on
an arched support.
Note: I hope
to acquire a replacement pottery ashtray in the future.
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Rondelight
Lighter with Female Golfer
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter from the early 1940s is one of the rarer models.
(The male golfer is more common.)
In this model,
a female golfer tees up to a Rondlieght baby ball lighter.
Ronson paired
a variety of athletc figures with trophies, bookends, lamps, pipe
rests, table lighters (striker, touch-tip, and rondelight), and
ashtray sets.
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Rondelight
Modernistic Dancer
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter from the mid-1930s is one of the rarer models.
This model
combines a small modernistic dancer figure and a Rondelight lighter
on a small rectangular base.
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Rondelight
Pedestal
This small table
lighter is a baby Rondelight lighter permanently mounted on a small,
stair-stepped chrome base.
The overall
height of the lighter is only 2-3/4".
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Rondelight
Cigarette Box Set
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter from the mid-1930s is one of the rarer models.
This model
combines a single deco cigarette box with a pedestal-mounted Rondelight
Baby lighter, on a rectangular chrome base.
I'm not sure,
but the base and cigarette box look similar to the New Yorker and
Baronet cigarette box sets.
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Rondelight Egyptian Girl
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter from the mid-1930s is one of the rarer models.
The figure
is a reclining young Egyptian woman holding a Rondelight ball lighter.
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Rondelight
Football Kicker
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter from the mid-1930s is one of the rarer models.
The figure
is a football player with a baby Rondelight ball lighter and ashtray
resting on the base.
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Rondelight Modern Dancer
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter from the mid-1930s is one of the rarer models.
The figure
is a modern dancer with a baby Rondelight ball lighter resting on
the base.
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Rondelight Modern Dancer
This Ronson
Rondelight is another version of the modern dancer figure.
Another variation
of this model (that I don't have) has the dancer holding a small
black ashtray.
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Rondelight Dancer Kicker
This Ronson
Rondelight lighter is an abstract dancer or kicker figure, combined
with a baby Rondelight lighter and black pottery ashtray.
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Rondelight Tennis Player
This Ronson
Rondelight is another in a series of chrome athletic figures combined
with a small ball-shaped lighter.
The tennis player
figure has a very appealing modernistic design.
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Rondelight Roadrunner
This Ronson
Rondelight is another in a series of chrome figures (in this case
a bird) combined with a ball-shaped lighter.
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Rondelight Horse
This Ronson
Rondelight is another in a series of chrome figures (in this case
a horse) combined with a ball-shaped lighter and a black pottery
ashtray.
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Rondelight Polo Player
This Ronson
Rondelight is one of a series of athletic figures combined with
a small ball-shaped lighter. I think the Polo player is one of the
more artistic designs in this series of lighters (all of which are
hard to find).
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Rondelight
Golfer with Ashtray
This Ronson
Rondelight is another in a series of athletic figures combined with
a small ball-shaped lighter and pottery ashtray.
A rarer version
of this lighter was also made using a modernistic golfer figure
(compared to the realistic golfer figure used in this lighter).
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Rondelight Golfer without Ashtray
This Ronson
Rondelight is another in a series of athletic figures combined with
a small ball-shaped lighter.
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Rondelight Ashtray
This Ronson
Rondelight is a combination lighter and bowl-shaped ashtray (with
a black glass insert). In this model that I acquired, the black
insert is not original, but looks very close to the original.
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Rondelight Diving Woman
This Ronson
Rondelight diving woman lighter is one of several athletic figures.
There is also a golfer, polo player, football player, tennis player,
and so.
They were made
in the mid- to late-1930s and are rather hard to find.
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Rondelight Dancer Ashtray
This mid-1930s
Ronson figural lighter combines a modern dancer figure with a chrome
ashtray stand and a Rondelight ball lighter in front--all on a black
enamel base.
A variety of
these Rondelight figural table lighters were made (most with a sports
motif).
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Rondelight Figural Ballerina
This Ronson
lighter was made around 1935. Ronson made several table lighters
using the Rondelight Baby ball lighter (which is only 1-5/8"
in diameter). Some of these were figural lighters (a modern dancer,
athletic figures) and some of these were combination cigarette boxes
and a lighter or combination ashtray and a lighter.
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Rondelight Baby Lighters
These are three
Ronson Rondelight Baby lighters. These are the smallest of the Ronson
Rondelight ball lighters (about the size of a ping pong ball).
One has a black
stripe, one has a green stripe, and one has an ivory stripe.
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