Original U.S. WWI All Brass Push Pull Tower Cigarette Lighter Category_Martini-Henry Accessories The cocking handle served as

The cocking handle served as both unlocking member and a breech block accelerator

Wood Grips have minor cracks and/or small missing bits of wood

appears multiple times

This is a testament that private enterprise has seemingly always got things done long before government bureaucrats

There is also a Waffenamt that reads WaA 182 which is correct for this maker

Original U.S. WWI All Brass Push Pull Tower Cigarette Lighter Category_Martini-Henry Accessories The cocking handle served asOriginal item: one of a kind. During WWI times in the trenches hard, raw materials were short, the soldiers spent most of their time below the surface of the earth. With plenty of time on their hands they created a multitude of different objects and among the most popular were cigarette lighters. Here is a typical piece of "trench art" from the Great War.