Calling all Zippos

[Zippo Grunt]

 

Zippo have just started a custom design service in which you can have a design put on a Zippo.

 

I got this one done,the design is taken from the movie apocalypse now.

 

 

http://www.zippo.com/customize/step1.aspx?process=image

[hink441]

Here are some of my WW2 lighters.

 

 

[boyt44]

Not a Zippo, but one my Dad carried in WW2. He must have done the B17 punched into it.

 

[PvtTamura]

Reporting my Zippo in, 1958 with EGA.

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/ind...61&hl=Zippo

 

(I'm on my phone, so I can't add pictures.)

[USARV72]

WWII Zippo and my Zippo I carried in Vietnam.

[Page-Hendryx]

A rare, authentic collection of 282 Vietnam era Zippo lighters went on the auction block June 21st at Cowan’s Auctions in Cincinnati. The collection belongs to artist Bradford Edwards, whose collection was showcased in the book Vietnam Zippos: American Soldiers’ Engravings and Stories 1965-1973 (Sherry Buchanan, University of Chicago Press, 2010). Some of you may remember the collection, which received media attention by the New York Times, NPR, and others. The lighter collection had a starting price of $30,000 to $50,000 and was included in the book. Considering the years of search Mr. Bradford spent in Vietnam sourcing and assembling the collection, the starting price seems realistic.

 

Rest of the article: http://observatory.designobserver.com/acci...4848/index.html

[agate hunter]

 

[agate hunter]

i think this is vietnam era. let me know if you know anything about it.

 

 

[Catfishcraig]

Adding to this old topic. Does anyone know what other manufacturers made a similar lighter to the Zippo “Black Crackle”?  I’ve seen Park Sherman, Century, Zephyr, Berkeley, and Jan.

 

Thanks

 

[Tony V]

Just a new find

 

 

[Catfishcraig]

My two WWII Zippos.  Three barrel on the left and a four barrel on the right.

 

 

[GAZOO]

MOH Maj. LEW Millett ZIPPO

Yes or No ?

[collectsmedals]

Here is one I purchased new in 1979 while stationed aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz.

[GAZOO]

I forgot to include the supporting photos
But from the best of my research this all looks to fit,
1968 date code, the insert I do believe to be period as well :)