Vintage Military Lighter
Rarity	5%
Category	Military and Weapons
Time to Sell	05 Mins
Value	200
Prestige	16
Placed on	Shelf,
Introduced in	vUnknown
Involved in tasks	No
Part of a collection?	No

Military lighters are huge with collectors, and one from a top-secret project is going to be even bigger.

-Expert

FactsEdit

• Fact 1: This lighter was given to members of Joint Task Force Seven, a top-secret group tasked with creating propaganda films for the US in the 1950s.
• Fact 2: The first mechanical lighters were modified flintstock weapons, and used gunpowder caps to set off lamp oil or similar fuels.
• Fact 3: The modern lighter developed in the early 20th century with the discovery of ferrocerium, the sparking material used in igniters.
• Fact 4: Military lighters first arose in the trenches of WWI, where a larger, visible flame could draw gunfire. They are now standard equipment.
• Fact 5: Modern lighters use a ferrocerium wheel or piezoelectric spark to light butane fuel dran up through a fabric wick.