GERMANY stamped on it

CityDigger

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Found it at a homesite today that had a good mix of targets. Definitely not period but I'd say early 1900s. Any idea?

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Is that a wick sticking out of it? If so it might be a "trench lighter" used in WWI for lighting cigarettes and not drawing the 1A1trench.jpgattention of a sniper. ???
 

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I think it's just a midget lighter missing the cover. Trench lighters didn't produce a flame. Midget lighters do.

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Trench lighters do make a flame, ideally you kept the wick short so the flame wouldn't be too large and make a good target for a sniper. I agree though that the one here is a civilian type lighter though.
 

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