Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “My dad used to take me, in the ’70s, to the store when I used to visit London with him,” recalls Zaim Kamal, ...

'Little ideas well worked bring fortunes," said the inventor Alfred Dunhill. He was right. Those in possession of a Dunhill Aquarium table lighter may well have a small inflammable fortune on the desk ...

An Antiques Roadshow guest told an expert to “stop it” when he shared the almighty price tag of her inherited and rare lighter. The BBC series travelled to Portchester where expert Mark Hill was met ...

The appetite of today's collectors for the trappings of a cigarette-smoking past will face an interesting test when a host of cigarette lighters from as far back as the "flapper" days of the 1920s ...