Collecting things

CAMEL FIRE

Got a fag? You need a light!
Just cheap, or someone stole your Zippo?
Lighters or matches, anything is better than grinding sticks together.
An obvious means to advertise cigarettes is on the means to light them.

LIGHTER SETS

1991 - CAMEL Hard Pack campaign - 5x Feudor Lighters

Introduction of cardboard hard packs in the US market.

1992 - Playing Card design - 5x Feudor Lighters

1992 - Club CAMEL campaign - 5x Cricket Lighters

1993 - Sturgis Motorcycle Meet - 5x Cricket Lighters

Sun bleached front side.

1993 - Holiday Campaign - 5x Cricket Lighters

1994 - CAMEL Motorsports - 5x Cricket Lighters

1995 - Metal Tin - 4x Scripto Lighters

1990's Common Fumi disposable gas lighter.

1992 - CAMEL Wides

Zippo inspired piezo electric refillable lighter.
Metal casing. Made by Tokai, model "Pack Lite III".

1992 - Special Lights. Free with a carton. Skripto disposable.

1992 - CAMEL Motorsports disposables.

Flip top. Looks a lot like refillable, but they are not. Made by Skripto.

1992 - CAMEL Cash exclusive, key ring float with refillable lighter.

1992 - Imposter. Two sided disposable piezo electric by Tokai.

1994 - Joe's Place.

Refillable oil matches. Threaded "match" with an O-ring seal in the form of a steel striker with a wick and a flint rod inserted at the base.

2000 - Promo packs, Argentina

Butane - refillable
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metal holder for
mini Bic

2000 +/- Duty-Free promos. Free with carton.

Very Zippo like oil lighter, but in a smaller rounded shape.

Metal and plastic refillable gas lighter.

2005 +/- Promo Greece

High quality refillable lighter.
made by Spanish v3i.
Model no longer in their catalog
Unusual flick front piezo ignition.

MATCH BOOKS

Good old fashioned match books.
Back in the days when public smoking was still allowed they were the cheap choice for advertising for many a pub or entertaining establishment.

1992 tin available both as "free with a carton" or ordered for Camel Cash.
It contained 50 match books with 15 different designs, a total of 1000 matches.

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1994 Smokin' Joe's Racing Tin
50 matchbooks in 11 designs, total 1000 matches.

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1995 tin available both as "free with a carton" or ordered for Camel Cash.
It contained 50 match books with 12 different designs, a total of 1000 matches.

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2005 +/- Match tube

Very solid metal container.

Rubber seal on lid and striker at bottom.
Contains ca 20 blue and yellow matches.