PARKER DUNHILL 'SILENT FLAME' TABLE LIGHTER, 1940's

Irving Florman patented the Electric Cigar Lighter, on May the 22nd 1935. Patent No 2020142.and eventually made as the 'Silent Flame' lighter by Parker Pipe Co Ltd a subsidiary of Alfred Dunhill in the U.S.A. in the 1940's, the unit was made in America. The name Parker of London also applies to an American Company with an office or shop in London known as The Parker Pipe Co Ltd. To use the lighter, remove the tube located in the front and hold it on to the rail around the side of the square Bakelite block with the terminal on the end against the naked Lady, inside the end of the tube is wick fed by a reservoir of lighter fuel, with a small wire element almost touching it. Two ‘C’ cell torch batteries inside the block power this element, this ignites the wick.

Bruce Hammond collection

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