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10-07-2012 06:12 PM
# ADS
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
Hello, Wecome on the forum,
Surely one piece for tourist, it's a long time Athen was occupied.
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
Nice old lighter with added repro/fake crap.........
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
by
lebus12
Hello, Wecome on the forum,
Surely one piece for tourist, it's a long time Athen was occupied.
Thanks, well, never said I was a tourist there. And of course I didn't buy it at the souvenir shop among postcards... I'm not questioning it's legit-ness, I'm confident it is (tho I make mistakes too, but before claiming the fake please state why)... I'm asking rather if anyone has seen one, known of or had one, or in general if anyone has any piece of knoledge I might not be aware of to share with me.
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
Wouldn't it say "Österreich" rather than "Austria"?
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
by
Eddie
Wouldn't it say "Österreich" rather than "Austria"?
Had the same question when i first read it...
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
by
Eddie
Wouldn't it say "Österreich" rather than "Austria"?
Good point Eddie. I'll tell you why, the 2500 model Imco (Julius Meister & Co.) lighter was made for the American market from 1937 onwards. It's a shame it's been buggered with as these are fairly rare, I used to own a plain chromed finish one years ago, and that's how I know!
Schmokin', Ned.
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
Hi, and welcome to the forum!
A search soon brought this up:
IMCO 2500: Made by Julius Meister & Co. (IMCO) in Vienna ca. 1937. An unusual
Imco model, a semi-automatic design with a simple but ingenious mechanism. Probably made for the USA-market. Patented by Julius Petravic in Austria (1923) and Hans Silberknopf in USA in 1936.
My strong feeling is a period lighter but with added repro insignia. This is a favourite trick with fakers. The SS closely guared their patented insignia and something of this nature would not have been allowed for sale.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
It appears that someone has cut the ends of the wings off the eagle to make it fit the size of the lighter.
Regards,
Jerry
Whatever
its just an opinion.
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Re: German SS Lighter. Any thoughts?
In the last 10 years or so, there has been a lot of this sort of thing appearing.
Lighters, pocketwatch cases, cigarette cases, clocks, ashtrays, etc. All rather
common 'everyday use' non-military items made of brass which have had
poorly cast or stamped Third Reich emblems attached/soldered
onto them. Sorry.........
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