Company Description:
Perseverance, ingenuity, hard work, and a lot of luck can make a company endure for many years. Bowers Tool and Die Company, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a good example of a family owned company that has survived the ups and downs of an often volatile and strenuous seventy years of dedication to success.
Even with the calamitous and frightful events of depression, war, and personal grief. Bowers remains healthy and strong with an on going tale whose ending is yet to be written.
For lighter collectors all around the world the name Bowers is well known. The lighters they produced are common to extremely rare in availability and extremely desirable with some varieties. Overall, the inclusion of Bowers lighters in most general collections is understandably expected. To have all of the models and styles of lighters they produced would present a grouping of more than two dozen examples. This would include variations in the materials used such as steel and brass, and finishes of chrome or gun metal blue. Aluminum and anodized colored advertisers in the competitive "Zippo" style pieces from the 1960's are but a small chapter in the catalog of what collectors can find.
Perseverance, ingenuity, hard work, and a lot of luck can make a company endure for many years. Bowers Tool and Die Company, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a good example of a family owned company that has survived the ups and downs of an often volatile and strenuous seventy years of dedication to success.
Even with the calamitous and frightful events of depression, war, and personal grief. Bowers remains healthy and strong with an on going tale whose ending is yet to be written.
For lighter collectors all around the world the name Bowers is well known. The lighters they produced are common to extremely rare in availability and extremely desirable with some varieties. Overall, the inclusion of Bowers lighters in most general collections is understandably expected. To have all of the models and styles of lighters they produced would present a grouping of more than two dozen examples. This would include variations in the materials used such as steel and brass, and finishes of chrome or gun metal blue. Aluminum and anodized colored advertisers in the competitive "Zippo" style pieces from the 1960's are but a small chapter in the catalog of what collectors can find.