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Buy Zippo with a 5% discount in the store Zippo.Ru

Tuesday, July 21st, 2015

Hello everyone! Good news for those who want to buy a lighter Zippo!

Official Store Zippo.Ru makes a 5% discount on a promotional code for participants of the forum! Welcome :)

Promocode take here: http://zippocollector.ru/discount (and give to friends :))

Zippo Club Russia: Welcome!

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

Hello everyone!

I hasten to inform the esteemed community of news about the small but significant changes.

Once upon a time, Russian collectors Zippo lighters have been left to themselves, and only then in the community ru_zippo popular LiveJournal, but a few scattered branches not thematic forums were a platform for their active communication. In 2008 appeared Zippo Collector , on the basis of which was formed a year later the first Russian Zippo-forum subsequently grew into a separate project. And in 2013 there was a massive thing for the community today, Zippo Fan Club network "VKontakte", which today brings together more than 25,000 participants.

Today I am pleased to announce that we have decided to come together under one name!

With the support of the official Russian distributor Zippo Mfg Co, the company "GALSER" we now call the official collectors club Zippo Club Russia!

Certainly belongs with respect to the habits of all our members, we decided to technically integrate our platform into a new (yes it would be impossible), but to create on their basis of a single club of Russian collectors Zippo Club Russia, which are now combined under one sign on equal rights of both the online project. For all those who habitually Vkontaktik or collector, and who is proud to belong to one or another club (and many of the participants will be held immediately in both), everything remains the same. But today all participants Zippo Collector and Zippo Fan Club automatically become members of the official Russian club Zippo Club Russia.

Today, the site is open and ZippoClubRussia.Ru , which now becomes the official main entrance for all fans of Zippo (new and old) and a single brand club. But of course, all forums will continue to work on their previous sites, and no one has to run and register again!

But now our (and your) club will

  • single name
  • a single logo (soon show)
  • uniform Club lighters
  • and most importantly - support in the face of "GALSER" (and soon will be discounts for all members of the club's official store Zippo.Ru)

Welcome!

- Yours, Vladimir kypexin Mihnovich (ZippoCollector.Ru) and Eugene Zippomethod Trofimov (Zippo Fan Club)

Reigniting the flame: Zippo new distributor in Russia

Saturday, February 28th, 2015

On February 27, Moscow hosted affiliate conference, which officially announced that in 2015 the company "GALSER" became an official and exclusive distributor in Russia. This is very good news for the collection community, and we expect big changes for the better.

GALSER ready to listen to the collectors and help us. I got great pleasure from communicating with people from GALSER and understand very well that they can change things for the better.

That's what the immediate plans of the company:

  • The increase in the number of outlets where you can buy a Zippo, including in the regions.
  • The issue of Russian-speaking directories Zippo (first pictured below).
  • The release of new Russian designs Zippo, which we will ask in advance Collection Community: What would you like that like it or not, your ideas. You heard right: we will show the pre-Russian zippovskie designs for you!
  • The ability to issue club and customized lighters (edition of 30 pieces) directly in Bradford. Now it will be easier and more affordable.
  • And at last to start their own Russian service center Zippo. Now lighter will be repaired here.
And another good news: In Russia will be officially delivered zippovsky gas for lovers Zippo Blu, and the clock, household gas lighters and hand warmers!
And now the slides!

Honorary diploma conferring the status of GALSER Zippo exclusive distributor in Russia:

Gift Lighter, released in Bradford edition of 50 copies exclusively for conference guests:

Zippo first catalog in Russian ( you can download it here ):

Your humble servant, Vladimir Mihnovich company Ball Tatiana (Tatiana Ball), a regional director for Zippo Russia and Finlou Richard (Richard Finlow), managing director of Zippo for Europe, Asia and the Middle East:

ZippoCollector.ru - 5 years, normal flight!

Thursday, December 5th, 2013

Congratulations to all on the 5th anniversary site ZippoCollector.ru!

What began five years ago as a small hobby, it has now become the biggest and most authoritative resource in RuNet about Zippo and other lighters. And the most important role played in this you - the ones without whom Zippokollektor would not be what it has become.

Thank you all! Hooray! :))

ZippoCollector.ru - 4 years!

Wednesday, December 5th, 2012

Friends!

On this day, exactly 4 years ago I saw the light of our website zippocollector.ru

And over the years we have become Zippo-the number one resource in RuNet. The biggest, the most informative, the most authoritative, the most respected.

Thanks to all who are with us! Thanks to everyone who helped the site and become a forum for what they have :) Cheers!

New forum about Zippo

Saturday, November 17th, 2012

Dear friends!

At the 4 year life of the site we are ripe to open a brand new forum about Zippo on a new engine, and now he lives here: http://forum.zippocollector.ru .

The new forum is much faster and better than the old one:

  • his super-fast engine;
  • very easy to upload images;
  • it works very well find;
  • and most importantly - the new mobile version of the forum there, which makes it easy to use them with any tablets and phones.

From today our old forum goes into the archive. It lasted exactly 1 329 days to become the largest forum about Zippo in RuNet. It will not disappear and will always be available for browsing and searching for the same link, but the new posts it is now impossible to add.

All are invited to the new forum http://forum.zippocollector.ru ! Come in, register, participate! I hope that together we will make it even more interesting :)

500.000.000 Zippo: normal flight!

Tuesday, June 5th, 2012

Dear friends!

Today the company Zippo, undoubtedly one of the most solemn day in the history and the double anniversary. June 5 marks 117 years since the birth of the founder and the man who gave the world the fire pocket - George Blaisdell. And today the company officially announces the release of the 500 millionth Zippo lighters since 1932!

The company noted that the date of the release of the unique lighters of all time, which will not be anybody :) This lighter will bear special engraved with the date and a sequence number. This cigarette lighter will have a serial number 1 (one), and will take its place of honor at the Museum of History Zippo.

In addition to the lighters Number One, it will be released collection of 50,000 lighters in brushed chrome finish and 10.000 - Armor Plate high polish. All lighters will be numbered and will have a special anniversary stamp on the bottom that says '500 million' and dated June 5, 2012.

Portal ZippoCollector.ru has the honor to congratulate first of all Russian (and of course not only Russian) collectors and fans of the brand Zippo on this occasion! And of course, our most sincere congratulations to the company Zippo Manufacturing Co, which has united us all in the love of simple, reliable, beautiful thing - the lighter Zippo.

And action! :) All collectors, readers and visitors welcome to leave their congratulations to the company Zippo in the comments (do not forget to complete the picture include your name and city). You can write a greeting in Russian and in English. All your congratulations and best wishes will be officially handed over to the company and its representatives Zippo as a tribute on behalf of all Russian (and not only Russian) collectors and members of our portal.

Congratulations! Zippo, burn! :)

In Brief: Lighter Zippocollector.Ru 2012

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Orders are taken at the forum . Limited edition of 20 pieces. Hurry! :)

Experimental plastic Zippo, 1,240.99 $

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Following the acquisition of Ronson in October last year following a sensation was the news of the purchase of the company Zippo retail shops and restaurants 7-11 (7-Eleven), which now amounts to tens of thousands of sales outlets worldwide. The deal has been prepared in strict secrecy, and the opening of the first retail outlet the company released the first batch of pilot experimental models of Zippo of high quality plastic. The public sale is not received more than 1,000 copies of such models. Witnesses say that in all retail stores are now owned by Zippo, people held in the evening, and by the first batch of plastic Zippo (4 pilot instance) with a special stamp was played at an auction in New York, where an anonymous collector from Canada acquired these rare copies for a considerable sum.
Sale Price: $ 1,240.99

Record prices surpassed $ 18,800 for Zippo 1933

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

We are once again witnessed a historic event in the collector world! March 8 on Ebay Zippo Lighter 1933 was sold for $ 18,800 unimaginable! The title of most expensive Zippo goes to that instance of the lighters sold almost a year ago for 12 thousand dollars . In this current record Zippo, as proshlogody instance, it is not 100% preserved the original: in the last year has been replaced by lighter wheel at a later naschekami with oblique and have this replaced by a cam instead of the original hook, and it has a modern form.

The initial price at which was put on Ebay, this lighter was as much $ 65,000. Of course, it was a very strong inflection, and the price is unlikely someone would pay. I gave my assessment of the value of this instance to $ 12,000-15,000 and slightly wrong in the smaller side, but as we can see, not much.

This Zippo has now become the world's second auction of its value. Recall that the most expensive in the history of Zippo cost to the buyer 37 thousand dollars, and it was novёhonkaya 1933 th straight from the archives of kompnaii Zippo Manufacturing Co, which was sold at auction in 2007 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the company. This copy bought Didier Karoubi , French collector and director of marketing for the French branch of Zippo. By the way, this auction is related a funny story that I told my friend and collector of Canadian Robert Bellows, was personally present at it. Mr. Karoubi was in the auction, along with his companion, and they too were trading together. Companion is not very good command of English, so he could follow the progress of the auction only through an interpreter. Once the auction is over, he threw himself on Didier with fists and nearly killed him. As it turned out later, because of ignorance of the English language companion Mr. Karoubi hazardously bargained with him, because I thought that it is a finite sum of 37 hundreds, not thousands of dollars. When the announced (and translated into French), the final price for which Mr Karoubi bought this lighter, his companion just had a stroke. A misunderstanding arose, and it was a quarrel between friends quickly hushed up, but the memories of this episode in the immediate participants of the event were almost brighter than from the auction.

Well, we can only congratulate the new owner of this beautiful and rarest lighters and wish to keep it for many years :)