Vietnam Unit Insignia Identification Help Please!

[Paleo_joe]

Picked up this Vietnam Zippo this morning - can anyone ID this unit? Thanks!!

Have not had a good sale here in a month, glad the drought has broken.

 

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[mojjax]

Nice Zippo ! What does the bottom look like - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...M_ipIhfaBAb-OeErw&sig2=0hjoO6X0BiA9yQAIkvsjUw

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[Paleo_joe]

Thanks! The bottom has a date code of 1963. Still in the box (marked $1.95), never been lit, the wick is still unburned.

 

[mojjax]

Thanks! The bottom has a date code of 1963. Still in the box (marked $1.95), never been lit, the wick is still unburned.

WOW !

 

[Mackaydon]

You may wish to contact Zippo directly and ask them:
[email protected]
Don......

 

[TERRY-NAMVET]

Picked up this Vietnam Zippo this morning - can anyone ID this unit? Thanks!!

Have not had a good sale here in a month, glad the drought has broken.


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The Insignia on the Zippo is South Vietnamese Army, Logistics, Three Corp Tactical Zone.
It is very Collectible.
Search this site, You may be able to find out a value.
U.S. Militaria Forum

 

[Paleo_joe]

The Insignia on the Zippo is South Vietnamese Army, Logistics, Three Corp Tactical Zone.
It is very Collectible.
Search this site, You may be able to find out a value.
U.S. Militaria Forum

THANK YOU!!!
It was that feeling I love - it was 27 degrees outside in line waiting - you get into the house and you're the first person into a room, and there on a coffee table it sits. The guy was a Lt. Col / Major Air Force quartermaster in the 60s. I still haven't gone through the massive box of slides I bought, but I've already found a bunch that were taken in Saigon. Also some 8mm tapes that I don't have the projector to view. Another dude got the best box it looked like, but I got there in time to grab the second

 

[TERRY-NAMVET]

If you need any help with the Saigon slides let me know.
I was there in 1964
I also specialize in Vietnam Militaria and if I don't know I can find out.

 

[GibH]

Very nice find. I don't think I've seen one with a Vietnamese unit's insignia.

 

[Paleo_joe]

If you need any help with the Saigon slides let me know.
I was there in 1964
I also specialize in Vietnam Militaria and if I don't know I can find out.

Thanks! Are you a dealer? I am happy to wholesale out the slides. I have a slide dealer I have sold lots to before, and I sent him a message, but haven't heard anything back. I went through all the slides and here is the count of what I have, all from 1963-1964. I also grabbed several super 8 films from Da Lat, Bangkok, and the Phillippines. If you are interested in any of it, pm me. I REALLY appreciate the help on the lighter - I would have NEVER identified it.

380: Vietnam, Saigon, Cambodia (?), Buddhist Temples; lots of street scenes; people; what appears to be a refugee camp; no combat, but soldiers and gear.

300: Europe, mainly Germany (East and West) but also Venice, Belgium, etc.

150: Okinawa scenes

50: Phillipines

100: Military Fair of some kind in D.C.

100: Camp Quapaw Boy Scouts

50: Parade in Leavenworth, KS and the Cornell U. campus

50: Disneyland and a big football game in California

 

[diggummup]

Very nice lighter. I wish I could find a veteran's estate sale. I haven't been to any real good sales in a couple months and absolutely none with any militaria.

ps-Disney slides and home movies can go for good money. You may want to investigate what you have with completed listings.

 

[Tallone]

Ditto dig's comment on the Disney slides. A couple of years ago, I picked up a box of miscellaneous photo stuff at an estate auction for $5. In the box was a small group of 35mm color slides of Disneyland from the early 1960s. Sold those on eBay for about $30, if memory serves.

 

[Paleo_joe]

I sold the lighter for a bit less than $500 to a Vietnamese person in the US who is starting a museum. The second and third highest bidders were from Switzerland. Also sold the same guy some 8mm tapes from the same estate for a couple hundred bucks. It took 5 days to get paid, but worth it!

This is the third item I have sold to a museum recently. Sold an atomic bomb game to the national museum of australia and an air circus flyer from the early 1900s to a local place.

 

[cyberdan]

Joe, like you said.

"the drought has broken"

 

[packerbacker]

Nice find. The poop didn't hit the fan until 64 with the Tonkin Gulf Incident. That soldier may have worked with US advisers at the very beginning of it all.