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Alexei Loktev: Jack Daniels Zippo

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

ZippoCollector.ru opens new section "Collectors Zippo». There are those who collect Zippo, will tell our readers about yourself and your collections of lighters. I will try here to invite many of his fellow collectors from the United States, England and Europe - they definitely have something to share with us :) And we will pioneer Alexei Loktev, who will present his collection of Zippo Jack Daniels :)

Greetings to all fans of Zippo, collectors and interested. My name is Alexei Loktev, I am a student, a little hudozhnichayu, design, admin, and, concurrently, a little collector. With the filing of Vladimir Mihnovich's decided to write a little about my small but growing collection of lighters Zippo.

Passion Zippo, probably, I have since high school; I remember, in the sixth grade, seventh, my friends bought Chinese imitations of Zippo in a stall, "Tobacco", and tucked them cheaper petrol from plastic transparent bottles that bought there. Lighters awful stink gasoline flowed and were disgusting quality, so they are not long enough. My gold color, is also safely break down and resting on the ash heap of history.

Much later, when I started smoking, thinking about buying this Zippo, such that for ages. Then I went to the store and saw a rotating showcase Zippo, and chose a lighter like (like something strict and classical), it was the model 20171 Diamonds in Shadow, Chrome (High Polish Chrome). Then I, as they say, "sunk". It has served me a good couple of years, and then was lost, which I very much regret. Then I bought it to replace a simple model - 230.25 Brushed Chrome, which is still alive, despite the fact that recently, I do not smoke.

However, what I do not smoke, I do not bother me to collect lighters. The subjects of my collection at the moment - this is an American whiskey Jack Daniel's. Why Jack? Probably because so Historically, this whiskey, I relate interesting memories, and Zippo lighters also sometimes found to be extremely interesting versions of the logo Jack.

For example, here's anniversary lighter in my collection, released on the 150th anniversary of Mr. Jack, one of the most beautiful specimens. We were really this extraordinary man named Jasper Newton Daniels and Jack - a nickname. He left a lot of legends like about themselves, and about their temples. The fire destroyed the courthouse exact dates in the life of Mr. Jack, so that no one knows the exact date of his birth. Therefore, traditionally the birthday of Mr. Jack is celebrated throughout September.

Many lighters you can see the inscription "no.7". What does this mean? That this sort of Jack Daniel's, that's understandable, but where did the number seven? In this respect, too, there are several legends. One of them says that it was just a room for the railway transportation, said the barrel. Another legend is this: when Mr. Jack developed his recipe for whiskey, he stopped at the seventh attempt, and decided to stop there. But how things really - no one knows. Mr. Jack took that secret to the grave.

Alexei Loktev