If the selling party does not picture the bottom of the lighter, where the serial number. ST Dupont lighter. The Sound when the lighter is. Jul 22, 2010 Help with identification of ST Dupont Lighter Accessory Discussion / Reviews. If you contact ST Dupont and give them the serial number on the bottom. Mar 04, 2015 Any idea when this Dupont lighter was made? The serial number on a real Dupont lighter is hand stamped. Check the flint too and only use dupont flints.

This is a general buyers guide, describing not only counterfeits, but things to look out for in general. There's been numerous guides out there to fakes and the best way I think is to look around for some pictures of fakes and compare them side-by-side. The tell-tale sign is the lettering on bottom but I've noticed that on a lot of fake ligne 2's, the ridging on the top of the flint cover is almost 'u' shaped in the middle, kind of like a ligne 1's, but to a lesser extent. A real L2 is always a downward slant and never slants back up again. Older ones had a shorter slant.

I've been able to use this method of determining fakes without having to actually see the bottom of a lighter, which is useful if you're buying online Visual Cues. Vintage.JPG (16.4 KiB) Viewed 89034 times This isn't an entirely reliable way to tell unless the picture shows that portion of the lighter clearly. Home Alone 4 Movie Hd Torrent Download. On some real ligne 2's it looks like it's slanting back up if the photo is at a slight angle, but they should taper downward and stay relatively the same size until the end. They will not get any higher and if you notice the ridges getting higher towards the hinge side it's probably fake. I'd expect most older style ligne 2's to have the older emblem, which has dupont spelled across the bottom. The newer lighters have either just a D with wings or no emblem at all.

I have not seen any fakes trying to emulate the older style emblem so generally they are trying to copy the one with just a D and the wings. Generally the ones with no emblem come in the newer black/purple boxes although that may not always be the case.

Limited editions often don't have emblems either, and will have an issue number rather than a serial number, such as 0001/1000. Generally the fakes with lacquer look somewhat plastic-like in the pictures, almost looking too shiny.