Lighter - Steel

1920's lighter with original blue glass ashtray.
This wonderful lighter manufactured by S.S.&Co has a GB patent dated 1926 and an original Swiss patent 2022/3 to EDWALD MUEHLETHALER:
Ash-trays.-An ashtray 21 is provided with a support 22 for an igniter comprising a fuel reservoir 7 with a removable torch 17 which is ignited by rubbing it along a flint stone mounted in a holder 13.
This invention relates to lighters, particularly for lighting gas and articles for smoking, of the kind comprising a casing containing material soaked 'in petrol or equivalent spirit, a rod adapted to removably fit thereinto and carrying.

A pyrophoric pin surrounded by a layer of wick or the like, and an abrasive surface outside the casing against which the pin can be rubbed when the rod is withdrawn from the casing.

The features, are a cylindrical casing having a tapered top, the centre of which is flattened an inwardly tapering collar depending from the flattened top, a support such as a plate or tray, external means for attaching the casing to the support, a rod having a tapered neck adapted to closely but removably fit into the tapered collar, a detachable tapered sleeve on the inner end of the rod adapted to surround the wick and the pyrophoric pin, and one or more strip-like abrasive surfaces.