Zippo lighters in different designs and colors makes a remarkable assortment. If you have the first Zippo circa 1932, you have the collectors’ Holy Grail. Since its first lighter, Zippo has sold 425 million lighters and having just 30 of the different models is quite a collection. Heres a rundown of the different lighters worthy of any collector’s collection.
The Lighter That Created Jobs
In the 1930s, America was in the throes of a great depression. Many tales have been told of farms foreclosed and jobs and fortunes lost. While there were a few stragglers from the affluent past, they were all cooking up ideas to make money. One was Mr. George G. Blaisdale who came up with good looking Zippo lighters.
The first Zippo lighters that came from the small company that rented a space on Rickerson & Pryde on Boylston Street. There were just three workers soldering the lighters, which Blaisdale borrowed from the Austrian concept of the lighter. Blaisdale wanted to come up with a small lighter that would fit one hand and make it less clumsy for the smoker to light his cigarette.
The original 1932 model was rectangular and had a protruding...
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