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Lighters made in
Austria
Triplex - the older 2 on the left are Junior 6600s & the newer one on the right is a Super 6700
Minx
FCL, 1911 - Austria - springloaded/push button lighter. 5.6cm tall.
Streamline 6800
Wifeu Seigneur fluid ball lighter, c. 1950. This beautifully engineered semi-automatic mechanism was patented in 1948 - a very similar version was used on the Wifeu Twinlite pocket lighter & the Beney Penge. Unlike flat advertisers it requires a very small push (approx. 1.5mm) to open & light
Wifeu lighters were made by the Wiener Feuerzeug und Metallwarenfabrik Company,
set up by Charles & Ed. Bernhardt
Pacific, automatic fluid lighter. 52mm tall.
RK (Richard Kohn) Erkanor c. 1926, geared push button semi-automatic fluid lighter.
61mm tall.
Imco (Julius Meister & Co.) was founded in Vienna in 1907 originally producing brass buttons.
They started producing lighters after WW1. Early models used brass cartridge cases
Gunlite 6900, pocket, fluid, automatic, 59mm tall
Lighters made in .......
Austria
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