I Founded Zippo 1932
It was said to me long time ago… this is a good zippo.
I want to know is it really good? who is this dude and i even can not read his name.
some-bodies help me 
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IT S ALIVE!!!Long1 but good1..Zippo’s a true American Icon started seventy-five years ago in a small cramped machinists office in 1932. The man– Geoge G Blaisdell. He started to build the first guarunteed windproof lighter that will light time after time or it’s repaired free. in 1933 he introduced his first guarunteed lighter, that year he made 120 total– today I’ve heard there are only six mint 1933’s left. They have alwyas been made in Bradford Pa and in it’s elustrious history has been in only three buildings. The first in the cramped office above a garage, the next lasted from what I’ve heard 1938 to1955, and then the most marvelous of architecturial structures it’s present building at 33 Barbour Street where it and Case Knives are made and a archetectrial marvel by todays standard, just as the Zippo itself. From day one to the present nobody has spent a penny on repairing a Zippo Lighter for manufaturing defect or breakdown– blatent abuse withheld. Zippo got it’s name from the zipper, Blaisdell liked the new invention and the name of the zipper that he named his guarunteed lighter Zippo, and through the years he has coded the Zippo on the bottom of the lighter with the name Zippo on everyone with only three changes in the style it has been written. Also on the bottom of the Zippo is stamped Made in Bradford Pa USA. He didn’t come up with a dating code until 1958, but the way the patent pending and the patent numbers were placed on the bottom of the Zippo identified the year. In 1958 he had patent pending and eight dots, four on the left four on the right. In 1959 there were four on the left and three on the right , then 1960 three on both sides and so on taking from the right first. Then in 1966 he ran out of dots he went to llll llll and each year reduced it one l from the right first and so on. In 1974 he again changed to //// //// till1982 when he went with \\\\ \\\\ in order until1986 when they were \\ \\ and Zippo went to Roman Numerals starting with number (2 ) II until the year 2000 where Zippo changed to the American Numerical system with the 2000/ XVI, then in 2001 it was 01 and so on on the right side of the Zippo name and the month A-L on the left for the month A= January B= Feburary til L= December and this started G 1986 til present. The Zippo has had few changes from the original prototye in 1932. The hinge was on the outside and was three barreled. Then it was moved to the inside with four hinged barrel and then todays five hinged on the inside. Somewhere in 1966 the 300 millionth Zippo was produced– a far cry from the first 120. Today over 400 million have been sold and 66,000 produced daily– A true American Icon.
Comment by majka — April 23, 2007 @ 11:04 pm
wasup majka i remember i got this zippo from you and some year ago one jerk tried to buy for 2€. lol
i remember u said u want it back one day
Comment by Realest — April 24, 2007 @ 4:20 pm