Message edited 1:56 - January 26, 2013 user yours_truly
I welcome all readers of the site and fans of Zippo, Today my article will be somewhat unconventional, because it focuses on not Zippo lighters, and its accessories! Namely - Packaging for flints! Fact is that if a legendary company has established itself as a manufacturer of high-quality lighters and accessories, why collectors and loyal fans favorite brand did not start collecting not only the cigarette lighter, but also a variety of accessories, especially if for such a long history of the company, they have changed along with the main product!
In a few words about the silicon: flint - is about that third wheel, striking a spark, which in turn ignites the fuel vapor, which is impregnated with a wick, resulting in our zagoraetsya.Obychno Zippo flint is made of ferrocerium, cerium alloy (silver metal ) with 50% iron or mishmetalla.Da! And please, do not confuse concepts such as Flint (mineral) and silicon (chemical element): Although not used in the lighter flint clean and artificial, that is not the one who is in a pure as in nature, the right to say flint, flint products are called "flint" and not kremnievymi.No we moved away from the main topic, let us return to the ground, as they say!
At the end of the 1930s. Flints sold in paper envelopes and costs five cents for two flint, and later in the early 1950s. Zippo company submitted a special container for storing pieces of flint, which makes the image of the customer, customers, clients, and thus, the foam becomes a means of advertising and marketing companies, make an order for the image of their logos on penale.Ochen useful statement to define different types and of packaging made of flint expert on Japanese Zippo Hiroshi Kito.Eta instruction is in the famous book about Zippo Zippo: The Great American Lighter.
To begin let's talk about the early packages for Zippo flint. It was here are plastic "tubes" that curled from the top:
On them, as you can see, printed label depicts Zippo labeled "Genuine Zippo Flints for 50
only $ 1.00 ", which translated means" 50 original Zippo flints for just one dollar, "with the letter Z, which is depicted in this form for themselves lighters from 1955 to 1979.
Next, we consider here are the experimental metal tubes that are twisted metal cogs, caps and enclosing three flint:
Next is the most common proprietary Zippo pencil case, which could hold six Silicon:
Well, its enhanced version, which seats 12 Silicon:
One characteristic of cases for Zippo flints was an advertisement on one of his pencil case storon.Na this advertising very first client Zippo, companies Kendall Motor Oil:
This company advertised itself not only on cases for silica, and on all Zippo lighters http://zippocollector.ru/archi ..... endall-oil
Promotional logos usually portrayed on a smooth surface foam, while the other side featured the most Zippo logo and information about the patent:
On the smooth side of the pencil box logo Raytheon - the largest supplier of U.S. military. More than 90% of the revenues of the company - from defense contracts. The company was founded in 1922 and became a corporation in 1928, received its present name in 1959. Originally based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is now the headquarters - the apartment is in Uoltheme, Massachusetts, one of the four largest U.S. defense contractors:
This logo Raytheon to Zippo Slim:
Case for Silicon Imaging logo drilling company Ace Drilling Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the form of playing - cards ace of spades:
Continuing with our advertising issledovanie.Na this pencil case Monsanto - global agribusiness company, a world leader in plant biotechnology. "Monsanto" was founded by John Francis Queenie in 1901, pharmaceutical industry veteran with 30 years of experience. Use their own funds as seed money, he started with the production of saccharin and named it for his wife's maiden name (Monsanto). Starting with the successful sales of saccharin "Coca-Cola", Queenie quickly mastered the production of other essential ingredients to it, such as caffeine and vanillin, and after a short time it has become a major supplier. This was followed by the expansion of production in pharmaceuticals (aspirin and salicylic acid) and production reziny.Osnovannaya purely chemical company, "Monsanto" in the last hundred years has evolved into a group of companies specializing in high technology in agriculture.
Interesting facts about the history of the company:
In 2001, former "Monsanto" William Knowles was awarded the Nobel Prize for his research in the field of asymmetric catalysis, he taught at the "Monsanto" from 1960 until his retirement in 1986
"Monsanto" - permanent criticism of opponents of genetically modified organisms. The problem of safety of transgenic plants is the subject of extensive discussions with various stakeholders, including scientists, government commissions and non-governmental organizations like "Greenpeace".
In the 1960s, "Monsanto" has been the leading manufacturer of "Agent Orange", a special blend of synthetic origin which was used in Operation "Ranch Hand" for the destruction of vegetation during the Vietnam War in South Vietnam and Laose.Eta U.S. operation has become one of the most known cases of the tactics of "scorched earth" and the use of chemical weapons in history.
Scorched earth policy - a way of warfare that involves the destruction of all usable or potentially useful to the enemy. Used generally in retreat, retreating troops reserve devastated territory, or in the fight against the guerrillas.
Originally, the term refers to the practice of burning crops in the fields to destroy food sources for the enemy, but, to date, the term includes the destruction of shelters, vehicles, communications, industry, and industrial resources.
». For the first time this method of war was described in the book of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War." The use of this tactic has been known since antiquity. Justification tactics in modern times belongs to the Prussian General Karl Ludwig von full.
History has a few cases of this tactic: during the War of 1812 against Napoleon, during the Second World War, during the Vietnam War, the U.S. and the burning Kuwaiti oil rigs soldiers of the Iraqi Army during the Gulf War of 1991.
For creating such a toxic mix Monsanto had to pay compensation to veterans of the Vietnam War in 1984. According to the Vietnamese community affected by dioxin, the three million Vietnamese have been poisoned by 2008, about a million people under the age of 18 became hereditary disability.
We return to the Zippo, here is the case with the logo "Monsanto":
And here is the Zippo Slim featuring the logo "Monsanto":
Pencil case at the next American advertising industry giant Bowman Distribution:
Well Zippo logo Bowman Distribution Barnes Group:
In the next pencil case shows rig, which promotes oil - gas company Hahn & Schaffner Inc:
Here is a case with an image of the Statue of Liberty Insurance Company Liberty National Life Insurance Company, based in 1900 with headquarters - headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama:
And here is the Zippo lighter with advertising of the company:
Next, we consider the case with the image of the building and trees, advertising company MEH.Chto is this company, so I just could not figure out, the Internet is full of companies with the acronym, but it would suggest that we are talking about the English elite company Mid Essex Heating ( London) Ltd., but maybe I'm wrong, The company was founded in 1974 and provides a wide range of services at home, such as mechanical and electrical design, installation, service, etc. In any case, the figure of what the company in question, when you see such an abbreviation, it is difficult to have to build a variety of hypotheses, so, dear readers, I hope for your indulgence! And here is the pencil case:
Image of the next pencil box advertises NOAA Ship Fairweather (S 220) - Research Vessel National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a federal agency under the Ministry of Commerce, is engaged in various types of meteorological and geodetic studies and forecasts for the United States and its possessions, the study of oceans and atmosfery.Korabl Fairweather was named in honor of eponymous mountain in Alaska, where it is now the home port:
By the way, if literally translated fairweather, it turns out - a clear pogoda.V principle, of course, why ...
In this box pencil case shows, advertising company Jacksonville Box & Woodwork Company, Inc., Founded in 1948 by two firefighters, who also were bratyami.Posle his retirement from the fire service, they began to make wooden cages seafood industry, bread bins for bakery , as well as boxes of citrus fruit:
Next, another case with the image of the ship USS Sample FF1048 - frigate Military - U.S. Navy:
Case with the inscription - Compliments of Zippo Man, it seems custom inscription:
Another custom inscription in pencil case Your Zippo Man - Harold "Red" Speer - Council Bluffs, Iowa:
A little break and will return to the lighter Zippo Slim 1969 sales agent company Zippo:
On one side depicts the fuel canister to another container for 12 Silicon:
Well and accordingly insert labeled - Did I sell Zippo flints and fuel today? I sold today Zippo flints and fuel?
Vintage instruction - where to store the spare flint:
Do not forget, colleagues If you purchase a regular Zippo only to replenish your collection and do not intend to use it, and want to put on the shelf, to please the eye, be sure to remove flint! You do not want to happen with your Zippo like:
In the pictures above you can see what happened to the tube of silica - for the fact that its previous owner had not taken the flint! In principle, this is really correct, but not all the forces, so do not complicate your life and do everything prematurely!
And finally, the packaging Zippo flints today:
In a pencil case and 6 flints, and all in a box - 24 foam. As you can see, this is not quite the canisters, which once was portrayed as active advertising various companies, clients Zippo, but it's never too late to start collecting ... who knows what will happen in the future!
Yes, by the way! We remember where to buy a pack of flints http://zippocollector.ru/archives/2686
Well, that's all for today! Hope you had fun!
Until next time, thank you for your attention, success!
Yours sincerely,
Yours_Truly
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