A collector's lighter is often brass, enamel, or gold, and it is built to make a flame. It belongs in a safe full of paper only when empty. In the overview Security for collectors, this is a small piece with an extra fire point that watches do not have.

How it leaves

A bowl on the table, a drawer in the secretary. Lighters are light and look like junk until the one Dunhill piece, or a stone-set case, lies among them. That one does not lie in the bowl. It lies in the safe, the everyday stock may stay visible.

What time and the fuel do

Evaporated petrol attacks the lacquer and smells into the tin. Gas lighters with residual pressure do not belong in a tight, warm box next to documents. You store them empty, wick dry, flint placed so that it does not press on the enamel. Enamel chips on a knock. One layer of soft, acid-free material, not newspaper.

The papers

Make, model, whether original case, receipt for the expensive pieces. A photo of the engraving. You do not buy petrol and gas as a reserve into the same safe. The reserve is a hazardous substance and lives elsewhere, cool and closed, according to what the can says.