Old Joe Lighter

[cowdery]

This is a picture someone shared with me. It's a cigarette lighter in the form of a miniature whiskey bottle. Seems like a natural premium idea for back in the day, but this is the first one I've ever seen. Anybody else ever seen one of these?

[cowdery]

In my correspondence with the owner, he tells me he thinks it was a hand-made one-off, perhaps a prototype for something that was never mass-produced.

[bourbonv]

There was such a lighter in the U D Archive, but it was not Old Joe. I don't recall the brand for sure but It may have been Jim Beam. I believe the lighter came to the archive from a miniature collection purchased by the archive from a local collector.

Mike Veach

[ratcheer]

Wherever it came from, that is pretty cool, Chuck.

Tim

[StraightNoChaser]

The bar manager at Bluegrass Tavern has a bottle of Old Joe on his bar shelf

[stoopsie]

I have an Ancient Age 1 pint bottle with a lighter on top. I filled it with fluid once and it still lit. I just wasn't sure how wise it was to have a lighter on top of a full bottle of whiskey. Open flame + flammable liquid =

[BourbonJoe]

That's pretty neat Howie.
Joe