I'd like to show you my new flashlight, a bakelite Zeiler. It is very dusty, but all intact! Interesting the light reflector is made of paper backed foil, like the one in the cigarette boxes! I just love those bakelite things! 
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hi Teodor
that is a good ww 2 zeiler pocketlight ,i like also the bakelite pocketlights,bakelite was dicovered by a belgium man in 1908 his name was Leo Baekeland
i think the paper foil,is fantasy (maybe wartime)
this is mine zeiler pocketlight
greetings bruno pocketlight collector
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Hi Bruno! I believe it is some wartime sub-type of the flashlight, because it is very well made, factory made foil reflector. No traces of folding and modifying on it - and it is very fragile and thin material, I think it should have lots of traces if self made.
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Theodor, nice one!
Is this a standard military (wehrmacht) model or also used by civilians?
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hi Theodor
it is the first time i see this reflector on a 4350 zeiler pocketlight,but for everithing there is a first time
when i see the close up photo of the reflector,i think it is original to the lamp
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might have to find one of these, I saw one was found inside a stug wreck pulled from a river not too long ago
the paper reflector would seem to be an economy measure?
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