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working on my collection, but it looks like 2021 was a good year for COTYs

anyone follow?

I collected them for years but sold most of my collection last year and bought several Leupold scopes. I just kind’ve lost my interest in them.
My favorite is one that I had one from Vietnam that had the guys name on it. The guy I sold it to found a guy with the same name that was on the lighter in Oklahoma and reached out to him but the guy never contacted him.
He was going to give the guy back the lighter and if he did I was going to give him his money back.
It had Snoopy on the front in his Red Baron flying helmet and goggles and said Vietnam 69-70.
On the back it said Pfc. Jimmy Pillow.

I still have a few like the one my wife bought me when we were dating, the one I carried in the Army and a few I carried down through the years.
Nothing quite as American as a Zippo!

Not a collector, but they are good lighters. I've got one beside me as I type this. Never know when you might need to fire one up.

I've got a '62 and a '68. I just gave my brother a '72 model. The '62 is in my pocket as I type this.

Yep. Hard to beat. I got rid of all of mine except for my 24 Hour Campfire Special Edition version, when I quit smoking 5 or 6 years ago.

I have several, I never use them. I use a bic or other, but I have one from when my Dad was a guard.
Is there a date/year they were made?

I have a 24HourCampfire zippo. Does that count?

my boys collected them growing up and have a box full somewhere. all kinds, old, new, logo's, etc. they used to take their money to the gunshows and buy and trade zippos and military medals. no idea if they got taken advantage of or not. they had fun. and zippos cost a lot less than guns.

I've got the D-Day 50th Anniversary edition from 1994 in the original tin, never used even once - I'm still waiting for it to take off in value

I had several when I smoked, I gave a loss proof to a friend. He said he gave all the lighters away when he quit, but that one.

i still keep one in my hunting gear. just need to remember to fill it once a year.

My Son packs one with him. I don't like the smell of the fluid in my hunting gear, thats why I like a bic.

I have a Harley Davidson one that my oldest daughter grabbed in one of those claw machines back in 2001 at Chelino’s Mexican Restaurant in Norman, Oklahoma when she was 12 years old. She gifted it to me that day. Even came in it’s own Harley Davidson case. I’ve never used it.

Still have the one I carried in Vietnam.

Semper Fi

Is it common for the fluid to “evaporate” without being used? I bought one to keep in my pack. Seems every time I go to use it after extended period, it is empty.

The first one I ever bought, I got at a Cigar Shop in the mall at Joplin. Back in the eighties. The old man who sold it to me, sat there and filled and filled and filled that thing. It would go forever without being refilled. Then one time, it got washed. It still worked fine, but seemed like it didn't hold fluid as long. I've gotten several others since and none of them hold fluid long.

My experience as well EE. Once they went through the washing machine, they were never the same.

Worst thing you can do is overfill one and put it in your pocket.
You’ll know real quick when they leak out on you. 😬

Yes, the fluid does evaporate rather quickly in a Zippo. I've had one for over 20 years and it is a good lighter, but one must understand the limitations of the design.

I was not old enough to get to Viet Nam But I was old enough to remember seeing it on T.V. Impressive that you still have that lighter. A reminder of the past.

If you cut a piece of rubber from a bicycle inner tube and keep it over the lighter where the lid meets the case the lighter will remain usable for up to four months without refilling. I've tested them several times. I like a Zippo much better than a BIC. Zippo's are windproof and they can be used without having to continue to press a lever down, as with BICs. I never go hunting, fishing, camping, etc., without one.



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