I found this in a vintage rusted out  tackle box in a deteriorating barn along with some old fish attractor dangle lights with 12v bayonet bulbs.
Will post those on gallery at some point when I have time.

The lighter reads I think "TEINTSIN CHINA" and the front is a dragon. I replaced the wick, cotton, flint and spring. However the lighter did work with original wick spring and flint with a simple refill which was quite impressive. The only reason I replaced them is because I also did a little bare basic restoration work on the lighter to make the etchings visible.

Anyone know the Era this is from and where it came from? 

If you correctly wrote that as "TEINTSIN CHINA" it appears it is older than the (...) party in China.
That type of wording is before standardized pinyin, which was developed by (...) China. Before pinyin, there was a whole bunch of different, weird ways to write Chinese in "english".

I am going to guess it is from what is now modern day Tianjin, China. Old Chinese stuff like this is actually usually decent quality.

Thank you for the info! I didn't realize how old this was.. I was thinking 50s or 60s originally. I really like the etching on it.