# Securing lighters: petrol out, do not stack a fire source in the certified safe

> Secure lighters: store them empty, do not keep petrol and gas in the safe, expensive pieces with a receipt on the list.
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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](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler), 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.

## Häufige Fragen

### May a fueled lighter go into the certified safe?

No. Store it empty. Fuel next to paper and in a tight box is a fire subject, not a collecting subject.

### Are all lighters a case for the safe?

Only those with a receipt and a price you want replaced. The rest is a bowl and a different risk.

### What about the original case?

It belongs with the piece and on the list. It is not a safe of its own.