I can’t believe it took me around five years to discover that. Around the same time I noticed the engraving on the “barmaid”. Whether you have inherited a family heirloom, hit the jackpot at the flea market or perhaps landed that lighter of a lifetime on Ebay, if it won’t spark you may have your work cut out for you before you are able to light your bowl with it. By 1995, I knew the value of the lighter and it was a lot more than $52.00. The wand cost $12.00 more than the lighter, but it was worth it.
I picked out the one that went with the lighter and purchased it for $32.00. This place had dozens of different types of Touch Tip wands. I forget the name of this shop, but I do remember that it was located in a building on West 57th Street in Manhattan, not too far from Fifth Avenue. RONSON VINTAGE LIGHTER ENGRAVED 296168 UP FOR SALE IS THIS VINTAGE LIGHTER ENGRAVEDSILVER COLOUR WITH CASE We are a second hand dealer / pawnbroker and any enquiries are welcome either in store or call us on (07) 8353 Located at Hippopotamus Pawnbrokers 718 Gympie Road, Lawnton. (The name “yellow pages” comes from the yellow paper used to print the numbers on residential phone numbers were in a separate book with white pages.) Sorry, I digress, so I looked in the phone book and found a place that repaired Ronson Lighters and sold replacement parts. Cigarette lighter collecting is a hobby that never gets boring. Issued by the local telephone company every year, for free, the “Yellow Pages” listed the phone numbers for business. In this article, Eric Beeson talks about collecting vintage cigarette lighters, including brands such as Zippo, Ronson, and Dunhill. We would turn to a large book called the “Yellow Pages”. Now for any readers who are too young to remember the world before the internet, we did have a resource to help us find things. The Ronson Touch Tip lighter wand I purchased in 1995.
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