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Estimated value $15,000 - only one known.Īs you can see from the variety of styles,windproof models were very important during the history of Ronson Art Metal.Ĭopyright © 1999-2019 by Frank Dutton,Slidell, LA 71449 - All rights reserved The lighter is marked Ronson on the pull out chrome plated insert. The WW2 wartime table green crackle Ronson lighter features an unusual built up 3 sided windscreen with curved thumb press and oversized funnel shape snuffer. Next shown are 3 standard 1930’s models-each having a different built up windscreen. Estimated value $25,000 - only one known. It was designed in 1945 by Ray Burchett of Ronson Art Metal, where the mechanism lights when the snuffer lid is opened. They even tried a similar design to the Zippo using an automatic mechanism. Ronson tried numerous designs including movable windscreen (1927) and slide windscreen (1929), then settled on the Whirlwind retractable windscreen model in the late 1930s. Ronson, starting with Louis Aronson to Frederick Kaupmann to Ray Burchett designed numerous windproof models, but many were never put into production. Blaisdell asked Gimera to design the new lighter. Zippo quickly developed the attached cased model based upon the Austria lighter but added an outside hinge so the snuffer cannot separate from case. The demand for windscreen models was so great, it lead George Blaisdell to start importing stormproof lighters from Austria in 1932. lighter manufacturers including Evans, Clark, Marathon, Golden Wheel, and Demley soon introduced windproof models. Soon after, most American lighter companies needed to introduce their own windproof versions. When Alfred Dunhill introduced the sport windproof model in 1927 it became an instant success. Next: 5 incredible Ronson windscreen prototypes Aronson later developed numerous gold, silver, nickel and chrome plate finishes. It was from this invention that he stated making plated pocket and table striker lighters a few years later.
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Art Metal Works first manufactured ashtrays, lamps, photo frames and other novelty household items. He had invented a process for gold plating that he named “Ormolu” (not to be confused with the French term, also plating related, dating into the early 1800s). Louis Aronson started Art Metal Works circa 1895 as a metal plater.
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Estimated values: Octette $7500 Oval $5000 Colonnade $5000 Grecian $3500. Each features a 1940s wand and curved flint wheel housing design. Each has a rare two color goldtone finish that was never used by Ronson for production. Next are 4 post WW2 1940s two-tone gold plate touch tips. This is a design room prototype as only the Gem model was manufactured utilizing allover rhinestone design. The first is an Adonis model covered in clear rhinestones. 10 Rare & Unusual Ronson Lighters by Larry TolkinīACK to Index of Articles ~Click Any Image For Enlargement~ġ0 different one of a kind Ronson lighters: