Found A Few Old Boys At My Shop(Dunhills And Others)

[Sewage Pipe]

I was in the market for a nice old boy lighter but was reminded by my fiance to check our shop. I completely forgot we have 2 bags full of vintage lighters of ALL sorts from the 30's and up. Thinking back I remebered a silver corona but couldn't find it but instead found 3 dunhills. A pall mall? And a forum? And a swank. Anyways they've been in a bag for years and they all work except for the 2 corona style dunhills ofcourse(smh). So does anyone know where I could get them serviced for a reasonable price. Springs are good but they have no flints, just not sure if thats the only problem.

 

[verporchting]

Pop a flint in them and top up the fuel, see what happens! If the springs are good and the nozzles aren’t plugged you might not need more than that.

 

[Sewage Pipe]

Pop a flint in them and top up the fuel, see what happens! If the springs are good and the nozzles aren’t plugged you might not need more than that.

Do they take zippo flints or are they special order

 

[verporchting]

My Oldboy style (knock offs) use the Zippo flints without any issues. Not sure about the Dunhills.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Do they take zippo flints or are they special order

Dunhill flints are softer and cause less wear on the striker, but Zippo flints last longer. I use the Zippos on all of my lighters.

 

[Sewage Pipe]

Dunhill flints are softer and cause less wear on the striker, but Zippo flints last longer. I use the Zippos on all of my lighters.

Interesting, ok that's good to know

 

[Chasing Embers]

Interesting, ok that's good to know

A downside I've found with the softness of Dunhill and Corona flints is that the strikers need cleaning more often than when using Zippo.

 

[BROBS]

Also if the flint gets wet it’s ruined if it’s not a zippo.

you can get replacement o ring sets for the Dunhill lighters off eBay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

 

[ron123]

ARS & Elegant Lighters

Fixing Your Fire Since 1957

lighterrepairs.com

This place does good work on lighters.

 

[balkisobrains]

...2 bags full of vintage lighters of ALL sorts from the 30's and up.

I like lighters & this sounds fascinating, any pics of the rest of the goods?

 

[Sewage Pipe]

ARS & Elegant Lighters

Fixing Your Fire Since 1957

lighterrepairs.com

This place does good work on lighters.

Ok perfect, if the flints don't work I'll be giving them a call

 

[Sewage Pipe]

I like lighters & this sounds fascinating, any pics of the rest of the goods?

Yah I have to go back in this week, so I'll lay them out and take pics for yah

 

[Sewage Pipe]

As requested some more pics of what I got. I still couldn't find the corona so I might have a another small bag somewhere. The genie lamp 1 is interesting as it says made in occupied japan lol. Hopefully the pics are good enough to zoom in as there are quite a bit.

 

[JMcQ]

That's a really impressive collection. What's your plan for them? Sale? Display?

 

[Sewage Pipe]

That's a really impressive collection. What's your plan for them? Sale? Display?

Thank you, I plan on selling them, I just never dedicated the time to research and seperate them before.

 

[balkisobrains]

Nice! You should be able to find sold auctions for most of it on ebay, there's definitely a market for the Zippos & the Ronson table lighters, probably the Japanese enameled mini lighters & the micro keychain lighter, the ronson streamliner (I forget the name), maybe some of the other stuff in there that I'm not familiar with. You can date the Zippos by decoding the date codes on the bottom. Some of those look like they're new in the box, & older vintages, so those can get some money. No mint-condition new-in-box WW2 black crackles in there like I was hoping, though. =)

 

[Sewage Pipe]

Nice! You should be able to find sold auctions for most of it on ebay, there's definitely a market for the Zippos & the Ronson table lighters, probably the Japanese enameled mini lighters & the micro keychain lighter, the ronson streamliner (I forget the name), maybe some of the other stuff in there that I'm not familiar with. You can date the Zippos by decoding the date codes on the bottom. Some of those look like they're new in the box, & older vintages, so those can get some money. No mint-condition new-in-box WW2 black crackles in there like I was hoping, though. =)

Awesome, that's great to know! Yah they'll be up for sale shortly, but no black crackles lol.That would be nice though.

 

[JMcQ]

I like the one with the cat(?) Coming out of the top. Let us know when you start selling them off. Very cool.

 

[Sewage Pipe]

I like the one with the cat(?) Coming out of the top. Let us know when you start selling them off. Very cool.

Ok cool, yah I definatelty will.