Collectable Imco IFA Slide Sleeve Lighter or "trench lighter". This one is c 1927. 90 years old as of this year.

The inscription is in script font = IFA (not "YFA" or "TFA") and it stands for "Imco Feuerzeuge Austria" ('Feuerzeuge' fire machine)

IMCO started in 1907 as a button factory in Austria. They made their first wind-resistant trench lighters in 1918 from WWI scrap artillery shell casings.
They were owned by Julius Meister & Company Vienna Austria.
The company manufactured over 500,000,000 cigarette lighters.
IMCO had the first wheel / flint cigarette lighter.
In 1913 Ronson had a lighter that used a match-like striker.
As of June 2012, IMCO went out of business.

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