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Tenderfoot
hello,
my grandfather recently passed away at age 96, and we're currently going through the massive stores of antiques he had. we've already had an appraiser come through and take care of the valuable items, but what's left are hundreds of smaller kindof bizarre items i'm hoping i can post here and get identified, as i'm a big antiques buff myself, and just finished college with a degree in american history.
today this fell off a shelf in a closet.
it's a 6 inch tall Penguin brand hand painted art-deco style table cigarette lighter.
it's marked Penguin brand on the top, as well as with an A symbol with a circle around it.
it appears to be copper or bronze metal top, with a pin to push flint through, and a wick.
the base is wood, that is hand painted with a green and pink pattern.
it's markings include:
-- Penguin (brand)
-- A surrounded by a circle
-- Japan imprinted in the metal inside (so it's Japanese made)
-- and the numbers 177 or 777 on the bottom, with an oval imprint in the wood with the letters UAC or UAG inside the oval, and smaller indistinguishable text on the bottom of the oval.
these are the best pictures i could take (sorry about the quality, i took them with my blackberry):
(from above)
(from the side)
(the bottom, impossible to read for the most part):
i searched through a number of antiques websites specializing in vintage tobacco culture products and lighters, but couldn't find anything like this one. i figure it's because this specific lighter is either completely common (and not worth identifying/selling on an antique lighter website) or it's very uncommon (which would explain why i can't find anything similar).
i'm looking for the following information:
-- model number or model name
-- date of production
-- where/how my grandfather might have come to own it (i know table lighters were incredibly common from the 20's - 60's) so this might be difficult, but nonetheless...
other helpful information:
my grandfather was born/raised in New York City, served in WWII, then moved to Atherton, California in the early 60's. his family was very wealthy as was he -- but this is clearly a cheap lighter (penguin brand).
my grandfather recently passed away at age 96, and we're currently going through the massive stores of antiques he had. we've already had an appraiser come through and take care of the valuable items, but what's left are hundreds of smaller kindof bizarre items i'm hoping i can post here and get identified, as i'm a big antiques buff myself, and just finished college with a degree in american history.
today this fell off a shelf in a closet.
it's a 6 inch tall Penguin brand hand painted art-deco style table cigarette lighter.
it's marked Penguin brand on the top, as well as with an A symbol with a circle around it.
it appears to be copper or bronze metal top, with a pin to push flint through, and a wick.
the base is wood, that is hand painted with a green and pink pattern.
it's markings include:
-- Penguin (brand)
-- A surrounded by a circle
-- Japan imprinted in the metal inside (so it's Japanese made)
-- and the numbers 177 or 777 on the bottom, with an oval imprint in the wood with the letters UAC or UAG inside the oval, and smaller indistinguishable text on the bottom of the oval.
these are the best pictures i could take (sorry about the quality, i took them with my blackberry):
(from above)
(from the side)
(the bottom, impossible to read for the most part):
i searched through a number of antiques websites specializing in vintage tobacco culture products and lighters, but couldn't find anything like this one. i figure it's because this specific lighter is either completely common (and not worth identifying/selling on an antique lighter website) or it's very uncommon (which would explain why i can't find anything similar).
i'm looking for the following information:
-- model number or model name
-- date of production
-- where/how my grandfather might have come to own it (i know table lighters were incredibly common from the 20's - 60's) so this might be difficult, but nonetheless...
other helpful information:
my grandfather was born/raised in New York City, served in WWII, then moved to Atherton, California in the early 60's. his family was very wealthy as was he -- but this is clearly a cheap lighter (penguin brand).
