Zippo collector

[lighterlife]

Hi I am new to this forum and wondering if anyone has the same lighter collecting bug as I do would love to see pics of your lighters and maybe I could post mine cheers

 

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[jeff of pa]

Welcome to TreasureNet lighterlife feel free to post your pics

 

[ECS]

lighterlife,I have many lighters inherited from from family and found in antique stores,etc,including WWI trench lighter,30's GM Aviation barrel lighter,WWII brass zippo,1956 Taylor Pork Roll 100th year commerative ,1960 Crown colony of Hong Kong Ronson.
One lighter I would like to know more about is a Ronson PAL/cigarette case combo that has a brass sword over a swastika surrounded by a wreath applied to the steel case.Any info on what this was made for?Could it have been from the German Nazi Olympics?

 

[lighterlife]

Cheers mine are fairly new lighters but I have a couple of vintage I will post pics shortly

 

[maipenrai]

Is there any way to tell the difference between real and fake Zippo lighter? Im in Thailand, and see quite a lot of Zippo lighters for sale, a little too many! Im sure some are copies, either made here or from China. Im not much of a lighter person, so can be easily fooled by a fake. There must be some way to be 100%, if its fake or not.

 

[lighterlife]

Is there any way to tell the difference between real and fake Zippo lighter? Im in Thailand, and see quite a lot of Zippo lighters for sale, a little too many! Im sure some are copies, either made here or from China. Im not much of a lighter person, so can be easily fooled by a fake. There must be some way to be 100%, if its fake or not.

Hi if you look on bottom of Zippo there should be a few stamps here goes : left hand side there will be a letter eg a, b, c, this corresponds to the month it was made eg January- A february- B , on the right hand side should be the year stamp eg 08 - 2008 , 05- 2005 and in the middle of them should be the famous Zippo stamp , there are many different marks for different decades you should google Zippo bottom stamps and u can get a chart hope this is helpfull , also the insert should be stamped but not always the same as the bottom stamp

 

[lighterlife]

Pics of some of my lighters

 

[lighterlife]

I've put a bottom pic of a Zippo up on the left u can just make out a letter A and right is 02 makes it January 2002 when it was made

 

[lighterlife]

Got this Ronson from a car boot sale for one pound don't think the guy new he was selling a 1934 Ronson fineline

 

[Paleopilot]

Hi I am new to this forum and wondering if anyone has the same lighter collecting bug as I do would love to see pics of your lighters and maybe I could post mine cheers

I have a few old ones. Most still work.

 

[Mr.Picklefoot]

Pics of some of my lighters

check this out (deleted for rule infraction) for sale

 

[duggr]

I repair butane lighters when it's slow for something to do. I usually work on Quality Vintage made Lighters from the USA, France, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and elsewhere.
Presently I have several pipe lighters on hand. Im Corona Old Boy, Savinelli branded Im Corona Pipe lighters, Flaminaire F12's, Zaima lighters and a couple ronson petrol lighters and a
few more I havent repaired as of this posting.