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As well as the perfume atomiser, Florjancic's inventions include plastic ice-skates and the plastic photographic slide frame.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2020

From Monte Carlo he moved to Villach, Austria, in 1963, where he would invent plastic ice-skates and the plastic photographic slide frame.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2011

The youth carried two pairs of ice-skates slung over his shoulder; as he entered the room he flung them clattering to the floor.

From The Girl in the Golden Atom by Cummings, Ray

The two presents that Sunny Boy liked most were a little pocket searchlight and his ice-skates.

From Sunny Boy and His Playmates by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)

L. C. Hamlin, Grand Junction, Mich., a U.S. flag 5 feet by 3 feet and a pair of extension, nickel-plated ice-skates for a watch.

From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 by Elverson, James