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Zippo : The Great American Lighter : Including the
Poore Guide to Zippo Prices (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by David Poore Book
Description
Today interest in lighters has burgeoned, and the vast majority of new lighter
collectors are avidly seeking Zippo lighters. This makes the market for Zippo lighters
stronger today than ever before. Zippo-mania is not only sweeping the United States, but
the world as well.
This book is a must for all collectors and lovers of Americana. It contains a
sequential history of Zippo series, cases, inserts, fluid cans, flint packages, and
sundries. It is richly illustrated in full color with many of the most highly prized Zippo
lighters that people collect. Information was based on original Zippo salesman's catalogs,
leaflets, advertising brochures, and the study of thousands of Zippo lighters. Prices are
provided with each picture, and a complete price guide is located in the back of the book.
This is the book the lighter collectors have awaited for years and years.
Hardcover
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The Viet Nam Zippo : 1933-1975 (Schiffer Book for
Collectors)
by Jim FiorellaHardcover
Book
Description
More than 700 striking photographs and a detailed text about Zippo cigarette
lighters, their history and current values, as well as the Viet Nam War comprise this
important new book.
It provides not only photographs of authentic and counterfeit Zippos and the factory's
own art work, but also a concise outline of the War, lists of U.S. and Vietnamese ship and
boat names that did duty in Viet Nam, definitions of naval abbreviations, South Vietnamese
waterways and geographic names, Allied in-country units, and a comprehensive dictionary
translating important Vietnamese military terms so that old Zippo lighters can be
interpreted today.
Singularly, this book holds tremendous appeal to an extremely broad audience. Lighter
collectors will see a wide variety of rare and common Zippos. Photographers and artists
interested in the Viet Nam War and its images will see powerful action photos. Viet Nam
War and general military collectors and historians will find factual information organized
in a quickly accessible form. Political historians and Sixties and Seventies collectors
will find ideas and objects to delight their interests. All will want this unique and
striking book for their libraries.
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