My collection of Zippo
Flag over Iwo Jima: Historical photograph and commemorative Zippo
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009This photo has become a real cult, it is reproduced in thousands of publications and has become one of the most recognizable military facsimiles of all time. She was the only reporter in the history of photography, which won a Pulitzer Prize for photography in the same year, which was first published.
This historical picture could not get on the lighter Zippo:
Safe driving awards Zippo: Lighter truck drivers
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009Here are three such wonderful specimen from my collection - 1948, 1956 and 1957. Belonged to the American Trucker, hitting years without accidents:
The erection of steel structures ...
Saturday, August 15th, 2009Politically incorrect Zippo
Saturday, August 15th, 2009Advertising cargo carriers in the Zippo lighters
Friday, November 7th, 2008Initially went on a simplified way: picture of the truck was offered the same, he could only vary the color and the name of the company on board the trailer. A little later began to add a few lines of text at the bottom. These lighters are beginning 1950 show, for example, in Japanese book Kesaharu Imai "Zippo Manual, Vol.1" . Presented here is an instance - Zippo 1947, with advertising Pennsylvania freight company «New Penn».
In the 1950-1970's, the variety of advertising on freight carriers Zippo growing and overwhelming.
Construction, heavy equipment and cranes on Zippo lighters
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Rare instances of bilateral engravings, and pictures from different angles are different:
Construction cranes at Zippo common. In the first two-way too lighter engraved: on the face itself tap on the back - tractor, driven by excavator on the trailer.
Prevalent theme of different drilling, both just drilling holes in the ground and oil drilling. The first lighter on the left - one of the earliest instances of the image on the truck Zippo, is 1947.
Zippo lighters board with technical-building subjects are rare, but still, there are:
To compare sizes:
Modern Zippo 2006 GMC truck with the mid-1920s: