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Ronson
Victory Trophy
This trophy
is one of several styles that Ronson made in the late 1930s. According
to old Ronson advertisements, these trophies were offered with a
variety of figures (mostly athletic figures, such as a baseball
player, a golfer, a bowler) and in a couple of different finishes.
Some were mounted
on bases with an ashtray, cigarette box, or rondelight lighter.
Others were mounted on bases with bookends, a lamp, or on a stand-alone
base (as shown here).
This trophy
is about 12" tall.
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Rondelight
Solid Ball Table Lighter
This ball-shaped
lighter is solid, unlike the other Rondelight models. The flint
and fuel screws are in the bottom of the lighter.
The lighter
is the size of a baby Rondelight: about 2-1/8" tall and about
1-3/4" in diameter.
It is one of
only a handful known to exist among collectors.
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Rondelight
Table Lighter
This ball-shaped
lighter is an uncommon variation of the Rondelight lighter. It has
a standard fitment insert that slides in and out for fueling and
flinting.
It is about
the size of the Rondelight junior table lighter (about 2-1/4"
in diameter).
I think it dates
to the late 1940s or early 1950s.
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Rondelight
Cricket Table Lighter
This ball-shaped
lighter is covered in leather and, hence, is referred to as the
"cricket" ball lighter.
It is about
the size of the Rondelight junior table lighter (about 2-1/4"
in diameter).
I think it dates
to the late 1940s and may have been made and sold only in England
(I'm not sure).
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Rondelight
Golf Ball (Bogey) Table Lighter
This ball-shaped
lighter is nickel plated. It is about the size of the Rondelight
baby table lighter (about 1-5/8" in diameter).
I believe it
dates to the 1940s.
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Ronson
Female Golfer and Touch-Tip Lighter
This is a combination
female golfer figure and a touch-tip lighter from about 1940.
Ronson made
these combination touch-tip models with a variety of athletic figures,
but the only two versions I have seen are the male golfer and female
golfer.
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Ronson
Whirlwind Pocket Lighters
These deco design
pocket lighters are great and very inexpensive (as vintage lighters
go). I think they were made in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
They have a
retractable windguard in the front.
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Ronson
Standard Pocket Lighters
These deco design
pocket lighters are great and very inexpensive (as vintage lighters
go). I think they were made in the late 1940s.
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Ronson
Standard Pocket Lighters
These deco design
pocket lighters are great and very inexpensive (as vintage lighters
go). I think they were made in the late 1940s.
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Ronson
Princess Pocket Lighters
These pocket
lighters look great, showing some of the nice deco designs used
by Ronson.
The Princess
model is smaller (in width and depth) than the Ronson Standard pocket
lighter.
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Ronson
De-Light Pocket Lighters
These pocket
lighters looks great, showing some of the nice deco designs used
by Ronson.
The De-Light
model is about the size of the Princess model, but I believe is
pre-dates the Princess model and has a different filament.
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Ronson
Deco Lady Ashtray
This metal ashtray
is one of several versions that Ronson made in the late 1930s. These
came in a variety of finishes and stand about 12" tall.
A removable
pottery ashtray originally sat in the metal bowl.
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Ronson
Deco Lady Ashtray
This is another
version of the deco lady ashtrays that Ronson made in the late 1930s.
These came in a variety of finishes and stand about 12" tall.
This one is
missing the metal ash bowl that rested behind her in her hands.
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Ronson
Monkey Pick-a-Cig
This Ronson
model was made around 1934. Some models have a brown monkey (shown
here), other models have a gold monkey. You squeeze the two levers
on the side of the cigarette hopper and the monkey bends down and
picks up a cigarette. A striker lighter is located near the monkey.
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Ronson
Lighter Penguin Pick-a-Cig
Shown is the
Penguin pick-a-cig. The compartment holds cigarettes. It uses a
new yorker lighter inert.
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Ronson
Perisphere Table Lighter
This Ronson
table lighter was made around 1936. The ball-shaped base is ribbed
glass.
The lighter
is about 3-1/2" tall and about 3" in diameter.
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Ronson
Lighters
Shown are a
two Rondelight Jr. table lighters and a Rondelight Standard table
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