Flaminaire was the name chosen by Quercia to launch the first gas lighter the world had ever known. Implementing the use of a bicycle tire valve patent of 1935, Quercia set the lighter world on a course that was to ultimately change the future of manufacturing lighters. In June of 1947, the world's first gas table lighter, the Gentry, was introduced at the hotel Crillion in Place de la Concorde, Paris. One year later, they would follow this presentation with the world's first gas-fired pocket lighter named Crillion, taking its name from the hotel of the same name. Less than 20 years later, this same company would invent and market the first throwaway (disposable) lighter, the Cricket. Less than a decade after its introduction, the major lighter manufacturers started to fall, and by 1980 only Zippo Manufacturing Company remained in the United States.

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