In 1920, the first IMCO lighter was released. When the war ended in 1918, the need for flashy brass buttons for the army suddenly ended, and IMCO was groping around to try and find something else to manufacture. It wasn’t until after the war in 1919, and 1920, that IMCO actually began manufacturing.ĭue to the restraints of the First World War, IMCO couldn’t actually start making lighters in the 1910s.
This wasn’t easy in the 1910s, when Austria-Hungary was fighting with Germany and Turkey, against Russia, France, Belgium, Britain, Canada, and the United States! Any plans to start manufacturing lighters during the First World War were quickly shelved as being wholly impractical. So that meant that they needed a cheap, readily available source of metal. Of course, for the lighters to be cheap enough for everybody to afford them, they had to keep costs down. 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! And that something was the newfangled ‘cigarette lighter’.Ĭigarette lighters as we recognise them today were invented in the late 1800s. Unable to make much money just from making buttons, Meister struck on the idea of manufacturing something that everybody would need, and that everybody would use – not just the army. Established in 1907 by Julius Meister, who was formerly a manufacturer of brass buttons for the Austro-Hungarian Army. IMCO was an Austrian manufacturer of cigarette lighters. Most people in lighter-collecting circles will likely have heard of IMCO, and if you haven’t, here’s a brief introduction: 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. So I’m screwed right off the bat! Haha…Īaanyway. Shamefully for me – I’m interested in all four of those areas.
Watches and/or clocks, and related accessories.īasically, this theory states that if you’re interested in one of those areas, you’re likely to be interested in at least one of the other three areas.Typically, for guys, at least, these areas are: It’s been remarked by a number of people that those who collect one area of antiques will often branch out into other areas. “Truth isn’t truth” – Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of the City of New York. “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment.
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