Message edited 14:18 - February 20, 2010 user yours_truly
In fact, writing about it does not make sense, the Internet is full of information about the Zippo sterling! Still material about silver "queen" in Russian is not too much, and although English is friends with a lot of people in our country, there may be and those who do not know English or French or German teaching, naprimer.V any case, even if the language issue does not justify the writing of this article, for sure there will be a silver Zippo lovers who simply want more time to read about ney.S your permission, I will start !
First mention of a silver Zippo lighter appeared in 1938 in the magazine ESQUIRE! It was kind of ads - advertising:
On the vintage strelingah (hereinafter - the silver Zippo) was not mentioned the exact date of manufacture, so that the manufacture of vintage sterling priblizitelno.Eto can be determined only lasted until 1991.
1938 - 1941 years.
The inscription was written on the bottom of the sterling lighters immediately right under the inscription Zippo:
1946 - 1948 years.
Sterling inscription found its shelter under a three-tier loops:
In this case, the stamp was the usual depressed and inscriptions sterling in itself does not contain:
If the model is 1946, then it was usually insert the "old style" - 14 holes in the windscreen and wheel with horizontal incisions.
If the lighter end of 1946 - beginning of 1947, the insert still has 14 holes in the windscreen, but now with a wheel intersecting notches.
If the model is the end of 1947, or is it a model 1948 - the Zippo is insert the "new style" in shape as the current one, in which the 16 holes in the windscreen and thus the wheel with overlapping notches.
1948 - 1949 years.
Caption Sterling once again takes place in the name of the brand that is labeled under Zippo, with both labels are traveling to the bottom of the lighter and portrayed the width, not the length of the die, In the insert in 1948 for the first time there is a felt pad.
1950 - 1954 years.
The company invents for sterling five-loop instead trehzvennoy.Pri this orientation labels are not menyaetsya.Pribilizitelnuyu production date on insertu.Naprimer determine if an insert with the patent number 2032695, it varies from year end 1949 to early 1953
If an insert for patent number 2517191, depicted a large logo, the year, respectively, may be in between the end of 1953 - 1956:
about 1955 Zippo changed the logo stamp on the model Zippo Sterling.Sam company logo was written in capital letters, the inscription Sterling - print and horizontally, respectively:
In 1960, the model was released Zippo Slim Sterling:
Since 1991, the bottom of the sterling was written a year and also appears on Made in USA and shaped as letters R in a circle:
1992
Zippo logo lettering was printed as in the current model, while the other changes on the stamp was not:
As such, the inscription on the stamp remains unchanged right up to 2005.
In 2005, Sterling issued with identical stamps, but in the same year on the stamp sterling letter r in a circle runs upward and now stands at the top right corner of the relative letter O.
As such, it runs from 2005 to 2008 inclusive:
In 2009, the r icon in a circle again runs down:
In 2004, there is a silver replica of 1941, the stamp is written patent number, month, year, inscriptions Bradford, PA, Made in USA, well, respectively inscription Sterling:
In 2008, the model was released Zippo Armor Brushed Sterling Silver, roughly speaking - reinforced silver body, thickening of its walls in half, in addition to the inscription sterling, at the bottom of the lighter there is also a model icon armor:
I draw your attention to the fact that in determining the age, can refer to the dating of the insert, of course, if it is listed there, and in general the inscription to read, AND PROVIDED THAT THE INSERTS AND MOTHER WAS NOT found in other Zippo-DONOR.
If this article any inaccuracies, please do not strictly sudit.Pri writing the review used a number of sources, information was collected at times bit by bit, each author their history, but in general, given all right!
Thank you all for your attention and good luck! :)
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