A rare silver plated TFG 1 Permanent Table Lighter by Reinhold Weiss for Braun, 1965. Silver plated finish with etched grid pattern. Made in West Germany. With etched LW logo. In very good vintage condition. A wonderful silver plated example of an already much sought after Braun piece! Dating from 1965, the TFG 1 was the companys first lighter and quickly attracted the alternative moniker’the toaster’, for visually obvious reasons. The sliding switch mechanism was a design innovation at the time. This example is executed in polished chrome with a modernist grid pattern finish. It was created by Reinhold Weiss, then working under the design directorship of Dieter Rams. Weiss was the designer of several landmark Braun pieces of this period, including the HL 1 desk fan and HUV 1 sun lamp, both of which are represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. The piece is marked Braun permanent, Made in West Germany on the underside. It measures approximately 105mm long by 32mm wide and 75 mm high and takes a type of fuel – butane gas – that’s still very commonly available today. This example is executed in silver plated chrome with a modernist grid pattern finish. It’s fully factory marked on the underside:’Braun permanent / Made in West Germany’ and also has its unique production number faintly etched into the plastic. It also has the initials’LW’ stylishly etched on one side. It is in very good vintage condition. As always, please browse the multiple photos that I have provided to get the best possible view of condition. The tanks holds its gas. In all, a wonderful example of 1960s Braun design in an uncommonly good state of preservation. This model was only produced for two years and silver plated examples are extremely hard to find. See Bernd Polster and Olaf Meyer, Braun 50 Jahre Produktinnovation , DuMont Press, Cologne, Germany, 2005, p 257 and 476 for an illustration and more information. There are many more items in my shop that don’t appear in regular item searches. UK buyers only may also pay by cheque or postal order. If it’s a cheque, please allow 7 to 10 days for it to clear. It has become necessary to offer only. For high value items. I always pack to a professional standard; please see my feedback page for customer testimonies. If you have any questions about any of this please contact me. It’s hard enough to make ends meet on here as it is! Thank you for your understanding. Please note that, unless clearly stated otherwise, my listings are for vintage/antique items and therefore, by definition, are not going to be in the same condition you would expect from a brand new item. Please be assured that I always endeavour to offer the most accurate description possible of the item’s condition and take multiple illustrative photographs. The item “Vintage BRAUN TFG1 Permanent Table Lighter Reinhold Weiss 1960s Rams Silverplate” is in sale since Monday, November 19, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Periods/Styles\Modernist”. The seller is “room_606″ and is located in Canterbury. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, all countries in continental Asia, Australia.
- Material: Silver plated chrome and plastic
- Age: 1960-1980
- Original/Repro: Original
- Product: Table Lighter
- Style/ Period: Modernist