Dexter wrote:
I am sorry if the question seems stupid ...
Of course, now all fake - from chewing gum to passports, and IMCO, I think, is no exception ... who ever faced? what features? on what to look for when buying?
Uh ... I'm very, very much doubt that someone ran parallel production IRIC. Firstly those automatic machines, which they rivet - do it with the same speed as the MG 42 ammo and eats shit sleeves. That is something to rivet the artisanal way - does not make sense, as well as run your own machine, because the demand for this product is not just a very limited, and even easier - no. This is not a Zippo, which, by the way, now also not very coma and needed - no image, no name, no advertising, no nicherta. And the price is ridiculous ... it makes sense to do something on the theme Zippo so that vtyuhat her then as "Vietnamese" or as a megakastom or clung to her with gold leaf and vteterit tourists as gold. A YMCA ... not one pair of shoes.
And what's even funnier - clones IRIC riveting and beetle and the toad, from the Soviet Union before the war and up to the restructuring, the bulk of places from Tbilisi to Leningrad and ending with the Americans (those purchased a license). Rivet stop - precisely because of the lack of demand. Not only imki - quite a lot of fucking stopped making lighters.