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I offer a collection of over 160 (!) patents of the wellknown firm Colibri Lighters Ltd (Great Britain), published between 1932 and 1990.

They are from USA, Great Britain (59 patents - all in english), Germany, Austria (53 patents - all in german) and Switzerland and France (47 patents in french, 1 in german) and busy with (mostly cigarette) lighters or parts/accessories of lighters, smoker's pipes and smokers' utensils.

All patents are complete, that means contain the full text and all drawings (see example). You will get a professional overview about the technical developments of this company which you find nowhere in the world in this good quality / completeness. You can learn a lot about the technical details of old lighters technique.

Also included are some patents more from Hans Lowenthal (the founder of Colibri Lighters Ltd) and Benno Lowenthal (Benlow Co.). These brothers cames from Germany, where they had a company called IBELO (7 further patents from Germany, Austria, France and Great Britain are from these times). Then they had to migrate to Switzerland and later to Great Britain.

Delivery is as a zipped file with a patent collection of pdf files (not printed, not a book). You need only the wellknown free programme Acrobat Reader or a similar one to open the files. You can also print each file.

Shipping:

You can d o w n l o a d this patent collection after payment from an internet source. I will send the text of the link for d o w n l o a d i n g a zip-File of about 74 MB with the patent collection as message to the buyer via the ebay system. Please have a look at your messages in the "My ebay" modus or see your emails in your ebay email account, where the message to the buyer should also arrives. After d o w n l o a d i n g please unzip the file. Then you will get a data directory with the pdf - patent files. I will send the link not later than one day after payment. Then you have 10 days time to d o w n l o a d your patent collection of historical patents.