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Literature
Here are some books, manuals and catalogues we recommend. The line up is by publishing date.
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The Bengali Swiss automatic lighter (1929 - 1939) was to lighters what Bentley was to cars in the 1930s: intelligent engineering, outstanding quality of materials, meticulous assembly and brilliant design. The highly confidential production run of around 5,000 units lasted 10 years and was halted by the outbreak of the Second World War. The Bengali lighter, a first cousin of the Thorens lighter, has become an iconic object, thanks to its rarity, purity and craftsmanship. Collectors the world over aspire to own one. This highly detailed and refined book, which is available in a signed and limited numbered edition, will tell you all about the eventful Bengali history, its creators and the Swiss workshop where it was born.
The sales link: info@bengali-lighter.org Website: https://bengali-lighter.org
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Art Deco Collectibles - Rodney & Diana Capstick-Dale, 2016 The objects in this thematically structured book encompass Deco style at its most alluring, as well as the modernity, excitement, and social revolution of the Jazz Age. With 120 cigarette lighters, cases and other items it will definitely bring you back to the 1920's.
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Vintage Lighters - 100 Great Mechanisms - Peter Brooks, 2015 An amazing book by Peter Brooks - the LCGB Chairman - about some of the most interesting lighter mechanisms. Very detailed info with lot of photos and patent drawings. Highly recommended for every lighter collector.
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Faszination Feuerzeuge - Manfred Klimaschewski, 2007 A wonderful book of an important lighter collection of a German collector. Detailed and extensively accurate content. German reading skills are advantageous.
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Streichfeuerzeuge / Striker Lighters - Urs Baetschmann, 2007 A great book about striker lighters showing a magnificent collection. High quality photographs of strike lighters in gold, silver and enamel. A treat for the eyes.
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Warman's Zippo Lighters Field Guide - Robin & Dana Baumgartner, 2006 This book gives the history of Zippo, dating, companies, military, sports, boxes. It is what is says: field guide, one to keep with you at all times. A must for every Zippo collector.
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The Dunhill Petrol Lighter - Davide Blei & Luciano Bottoni, 2004 As a result of years of research and study this book provides an extensive overview of the history and role of petrol lighters within the overall Alfred Dunhill product line, details of the production and commercial strategy used by the company and a comprehensive photographic catalogue of Dunhill petrol lighters.
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The Golden Age of Cigarette Lighters - Ira Pilossof & Stuart Schneider, 2004 The second book from these authors is an extensive work with hundreds of exquisite vintage lighters beyond the usual models including a lot of European lighters. A most important guide for serious collectors.
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Zippo Lighters - An identification and price guide - Russell E. Lewis, 2004 Amazing book with lot of great photography, history, value trends, trading, price guide, advertising, lighter clubs and other info.
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Medieval Firsteels - Spiro Svoronos, 2004 Small but impressive booklet about medieval fire steels. All steels are shown in full scale.
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Neues über alte Feuerzeuge - Günter W. Broesan & Alois Gastl, 2003 This book reveals an enormous amount of insight to many lighter manufacturers and their products. It is deep technical content based on the vast knowledge of the authors. If you are not fluent in German you could still easily read the titles and most of the information related to the illustrations.
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Artisanat de Tranché & Briquets de Poilus - Patrice Warin, 2003 Impressive book about WWI Trench Art and Trench Art Lighters written by the French collector Patrice Warin. Requires French reading skills.
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Collectible Lighters - Juan Manuel Clark, 2002 A refreshing pocket guide for cigarette lighters, written by a French author. A charming concept with many extraordinary lighters. Great photos.
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Brandstifter - Monika Haenlein & Eberhard Fehre, 2002 Museum catalogue of a German exhibition about the history of fire-making. The book is about all fire-making methods with fantastic pictures of a breathtaking collection. German reading skills required.
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Zippo Collection Manual #6 - Kesaharu Imai, 2002 Last volume in the Zippo Collecting Manual edition from Kesaharu Imai. Smallest number of pages of them all but nevertheless worth having.
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Ronson’s Art Metal Works - Stuart Schneider, 2001 A comprehensive guide to Ronson’s fine decorative metalware. You can’t find any lighters in this book but it is an important completion for Ronson collectors.
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Feuer aus Schleiz - Dr. Theo Piegler, 2001 A great historical book about the Piegler-company (Schleiz, Thueringen, Germany), an important manufacturer of Doebereiner-lighters back in the 19th century. German reading skills required.
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Ronson Wick Lighters 1913-2000 - Urban K. Cummings, 2000 This is the pocket guide that followed in 2000. It contains no historical information but an extended variety of nearly 100% of all Ronson lighters ever made. A handy guide for the Ronson collector with most accurate information.
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The Handbook of Vintage Cigarette Lighters - Stuart Schneider & Ira Pilossof, 1999 The first book from these authors is a practical guide for lighter collectors with great photography and accurate information. Not as extensive as their second book but more practical to take along.
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Zippo an American Legend - Avi R. Baer & Alexander Neumark, 1999 A handy pocket guide for Zippo collectors. A good read for new collectors (to get an overview) and people who do not collect but are interested in the topic.
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The Evans Book - Larry Clayton, 1998 A comprehensive guide to the history and the products of the Evans Case Company. The book includes most Evans’ lighter models, most other products as well as old advertising and patents.
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Feuerzeuge im Auer-von-Welsbach Museum - Wolfgang Seyfried, 1998 This simple booklet presents an extract from the Auer-von-Welsbach Museum in Althofen, Austria. The Museum is dedicated to the inventor of the pyrophoric flint and the lighters shown are very rare models from his original collection. A must have for collectors interested in rare mechanisms.
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Zippo The Great American Lighter - David Poore, 1997 The encyclopedia for Zippo collectors. The book contains excellent historical information and a vast collection of lighter-pictures and illustrations.
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Japanese Lighter Club Museum Catalogue - Japanese Lighter Club, 1997 A catalogue of the Japanese Lighter Club Museum in Tokyo published by Green Arrow Graffiti.
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Zippo Collection Manual #5 - Kesaharu Imai, 1997 Amazing publication full of useful info and advices on collecting. For all Zippo lovers.
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Lighter - a Japanese author, 1997 This is a great re-print collection of lighter advertising and lighter catalogue pages. A wonderful tool to discover when specific lighter designs were advertised.
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Cigarette Lighters - Stuart Schneider & George Fischler, 1996 A great book for lighter collectors with a wide interest. Great pictures and information.
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Cigarette Lighters Book 2 - James Flanagan, 1996 James Flanagan’s second book starts where his first book ended. Still a wild mix of flavors but higher quality lighters shown.
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Zippo Collection Manual #4 - Kesaharu Imai, 1996 Great manual for Reddy Kilowatt, Coca-Cola and Disney fans. Also there is a lot about war time Zippos, sport illustrations, aviation motifs, locomotive and motor vehicles and the Celebration of the 50th Zippo Anniversary.
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Fire Steels - Vittorio Cacciandra & Alessandro Cesati, 1996 A magnificent book about the development of fire steels. First quality illustrations and information. This is THE book on the topic.
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Die Feuerzeuge - Wolfgang Seyfried, 1996 Seyfried’s history of fire-making methods is a profound work, providing a huge amount of information. German reading skills are absolutely required.
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The Legend of the Lighter - Ad van Weert, 1995 This is the most wonderful book about the history and fascination of fire-making and lighters. It contains fantastic photographs and great stories. One of few books equally attractive to collectors and non-collectors.
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Cigarette Lighters - James Flanagan, 1995 James Flanagan’s first book presents many pictures and brief information. A wild mix of flavors.
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Collecting Cigarette Lighters Volume II - Neil S. Wood, 1995 Wood’s second book has a lot more pictures of much higher quality. We find this book quite interesting for collectors with a specific interest in figural lighters.
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1000 Feuerzeuge / Cigarette Lighters - Günter W. Broesan, 1995 The first of Günter W. Broesan’s books includes exactly 1000 lighters and very accurate information focusing to German lighters.
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Collecting Cigarette Lighters - Neil S. Wood, 1994 Half of the content is about lighter advertisements. The rest contains of photos and information of a large variety of collectible lighters mostly from the USA and Japan.
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Smoking Collectibles - Neil S. Wood, 1994 A well illustrated guide to all kinds of smoking collectibles.
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Match Holders - Denis B. Alsford, 1994 A great guide about the related topic of match holders and vesta cases.
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Zippo Collection Manual #3 - Kesaharu Imai, 1994 This manual gives great photography of experimental models, advertisements, masterpieces in history, museum Zippo lighters, clothing etc. Hundreds of Zippos inside.
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Feuerzeugs - Frank Gnegel, 1994 Museum catalog of a German touring exhibition about the history of fire-making. Excellent book for collectors of early firemaking devices such as Doebereiner hydrogen-lamps etc. German reading skills required.
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Zippo Collection Manual #2 - Kesaharu Imai, 1993 In this manual you will find tips for collecting Zippos, design and production process, French military and US Navy models and much more. Great extension of the Zippo manual series.
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One hundred years and more - Michael Balfour, 1992 Published by Dunhill Ltd for the 100 year anniversary of the company. A detailed review of Dunhill’s history as one of the earliest luxury brands in the world. The book contains several great pictures of Dunhill lighters from the Dunhill Museum.
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Ronson Wick Lighters 1913-1966 - Urban K. Cummings, 1992 When this book was published in 1992 the collecting of Ronson lighters took a steep ascent in the USA and the world. The book includes most Ronson lighters ever made plus a deep insight in to the history of Art Metal Works (Ronson). A great collector’s guide for Ronson collectors from the most knowledgeable specialist Urban K. Cummings.
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Smokerama - Philip Collins, 1992 This is a marvelous book with great illustrations and information about rare and sometimes bizarre tobacco accoutrements such as lighters.
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Zippo Collection Manual #1 - Kesaharu Imai, 1992 First volume of Zippo manuals from Kesaharu Imai. Inside are chapters about the Zippo birth, WWII, table models, boxes, packages, Vietnam and so on. Useful for both beginners and advanced collectors.
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Lighters Gli Accendini - Stefano Bisconcini, 1991 Called “the small Bisconcini”. A lovely handbook with an extract from the original book Lighters Accendini.
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Compacts and Smoking Accessories - Roseann Ettinger, 1991 A well made guide to compacts and smoking accessories including lighters.
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Feuer und Flamme - Georg Brandes & Rolf Jarschel, 1988 An unusual scientific book about fire-making methods. It was written and published in the German Democratic Republic. German reading skills required.
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Geschichte der Feuerzeuge - Rita Bucheit, 1985 A splendid handbook about the history of fire-making and modern lighters. Written by Rita Bucheit from the owner family of IMCO in Austria. German reading skills required.
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Lighters Accendini - Stefano Bisconcini, 1983 This is the standard work for lighter collectors. A great collector’s guide with lots of valuable information about lighter manufacturers in Europe and the USA. It focuses more on European brands and models.
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Das Feuerzeug - Hasso Heydenreich, 1979 A catalogue of exhibits from the Stadtmuseum Weimar by Hasso Heydenreich dated June 1979. Similar content to Bryant and May but not anything like as comprehensive.
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Autour du Tabac - Pierre Faveton, 1970 A French book about tobacco history including vesta cases and Lighters. Really well made with great illustrations.
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Cigarette Lighters and Cases - Sakakura, 1949 This is a Japanese company set up in 1949, possibly American influenced. The catalogue has many recognizable lighters - copies of others makers.
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The Bryant and May Catalogue of Exhibits - Bryant & May LTD., 1926 The Bryant and May Catalogue of Exhibits (and the supplement published 1928) of Bow, London. It is the reference work for pre-flint fire making devices including fire drills, fire pumps, fire steels, tinder boxes, tinder pistols, burning glasses, Japanese nutmegs, dobereiners, matches, match boxes, “modern lighters” which were WWI trench lighters, Reliable Pocket Lamp, Koopman's Magic Pocket Lighter and many other cap and fusee lighters.
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