IMCO Lighter, Stainless Steel

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Was Sie nicht über Königin Victoria und das Kensington-System wissen on Victoria and the Kensington System Did soldiers in the First World War ever make their own trench-art lighters out of scraps of brass and copper that they found lying around in the trenches, probably while in hospital or on leave, to kill time and have something to do?

Now, whether or not IMCO ever used these casings in their ‘raw’ form to make their first lighters is unknown. Going by photographs I’ve seen, I would say that it was very unlikely. It is possible that they simply used the brass bullet-casings, melted them down and remade the reclaimed metal into the necessary parts they needed, but didn’t use the actual casings themselves to manufacture the lighters. Den første vare i fysisk besiddelse, når det drejer sig om regelmæssig levering af varer over en bestemt periode. Du skal sende din ordre retur uden unødig forsinkelse og senest 14 dage efter, at du har gjort brug af din fortrydelsesret. Du skal afholde de direkte udgifter i forbindelse med returnering. Når du returnerer, er du ansvarlig for, at varen er pakket ordentligt ind. Du skal vedlægge en kopi af ordrebekræftelsen i pakken. Ekspeditionen går hurtigere, hvis du ligeledes udfylder og vedlægger vores Fortrydelsesformular. Får det sidste parti, eller sidste del i fysisk besiddelse, når det drejer sig om aftale af levering af varer, der består af flere partier/dele. Unfortunately, Imco closed their factory years ago, and surviving lighters are old, sometimes rusty or worn, and increasingly expensive as collector items. I recently discovered that a Japanese company bought the rights to the Imco lighter from the original company. They have started manufacturing them again (in China) and, in my opinion, have improved the lighter in terms of fit, finish and quality. The biggest improvement is that they are now making them out of stainless steel (although the fuel tank is aluminum like the originals). It uses regular Zippo flints, and has a space for storing a spare in the lighter mechanism.Cigarette lighters as we recognise them today were invented in the late 1800s. Early models were unbelievably crude by modern standards, but IMCO got the idea that if they could come up with one good, cheap, simple design, then they could mass produce them, and become the Henry Ford Company of cigarette lighters! IMCO has produced and sold - worldwide - over half a billion lighters to date. The IMCO brand stands for superb quality in the middle-of-the-range market. All lighters meet all ISO 9994 standards and are classified as "semi-luxury". This means that, according to European regulations, no child-proofing is required. The IFA lighter is one of the most recognizable lighters IMCO has ever made. It was patented under No. 105107. The name IFA on the lighter stands for Imco Feuerzeuge Austria. The stamp “IFA” changed with the years of release. The lighter featured a slidable windshield with holes to make it wind proof.

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Honestly, I have no idea. But it perplexed, and later, perturbed me, that so many people were being unknowingly and unwillingly conned or misled into thinking that they were buying some sort of legitimate and original First World War cigarette lighter made on the Western Front or in the trenches or something. The sheer QUANTITY of these so-called ‘handmade’, ‘homemade’ lighters, supposedly produced out of stuff they found lying around in the trenches, should alone, make it a suspect piece, to say nothing of the fact that they all look exactly the same. If it’s not a trench lighter, and was never used in the First World War, and wasn’t even manufactured until at least a year or two after the war ended, then why is it even called a trench lighter? Where did it come from!? IMCO windproof lighers are very versatile. Besides being used as a lighter for cigarettes and pipes they can also be used to light fireplaces, candles and campfires. These lighters are easy to fill with lighter fluid and have a replaceable flint. unexpectedly gross things about living in a medieval castle on Living in a Castle – What was it Like?

A ‘trench’ lighter is a type of ‘trench art’. ‘Trench art’ is anything decorative or functional, handmade by soldiers while out in the fields or in the trenches during battle, or by soldiers recuperating or on-leave from the battlefront, using materials scavenged or saved or found on the battlefield. Usually such items are things like shell casings, bullet-casings, and metal from food tins or cans of meat and so on. If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”– Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment. That means that for the IMCO lighter to be a REAL ‘trench’ lighter, it would have to have been made out of actual battlefield materials. Which it never was. Even if the brass which was used to manufacture it came from old shell-casings that were melted down and reused, that doesn’t constitute a trench lighter, since it wasn’t made by a soldier on active duty during the war, out of actual field materials. That’s not to say that actual trench lighters don’t exist – they certainly do – but the IMCO lighter from 1920 is not one of them. Note - some info is missing, as I don't own an early or middle period 6700, but I have seen some, so I've made some assumptions where the information seems obvious. Also, the dates of manufacture for all lighters are educated guesses.

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During the conflict, ZIPPO ceased manufacturing lighters for the civilian market, and sold exclusively to the armed forces. Because brass was required for the war-effort, wartime Zippos were made exclusively of steel – the first, last and only time in their history when the lighter wasn’t made of brass (except of course, for when it was made of silver or gold). Aaanyway. Enough of that. I am creating this posting for the very real purpose of it being a public service to the collecting community, and the subject of this posting is, as the title says: IMCO lighters! Or specifically, one particular IMCO lighter, which I’ll be talking about later on. Something else to know if you prefer lighter fluid. Commercial lighter fluid is naphtha, which is what Coleman fuel is made from. If you get a small plastic squirt bottle, like a N algene two ounce bottle with small spout, and a gallon of Coleman fuel, you can keep your lighter fueled for many years. For something to qualify as ‘trench art’, it has to have been made by a soldier during either the First or the Second World War, while on the front lines (or while on active duty during the wars) using materials available on the battlefield.