Smoking & Tobacco Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 7-color factory engraved advertising Zippo lighter made for the Gateway Tire Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. The lighter has its original insert and shows a caricature of an old, bearded Confederate soldier still carrying his Rebel flag...

ARTIFACT: This is a factory engraved Zippo lighter made for Yuengling's Ice Cream Company in Pennsylvania. The lighter shows their logo on front in red and blue. VINTAGE: Having a nickel insert and 3 barrel hinge, this was probably made in early 1947...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1938 Zippo with factory-engraved initials, GWC. Sometime in the 1960s the lighter was obviously sent back to the factory for hinge repair. At that time, a NICKEL 5-barrel hinge was put in the lighter and the original guts were...

ARTIFACT: This is a factory engraved slim Zippo lighter made for use by Electric power companies showing the famous Reddy Kilowatt logo. On the reverse the Central Illinois Public Service company had their logo privately, but professionally engraved...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1954 Zippo lighter with a factory-engraved fly-fishing scene. The lighter has a chromed brass case with a nickel insert. VINTAGE: Circa 1954. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" height and 1-1/2" width and 1/2" thickness. CONSTRUCTION...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1954 Zippo lighter with a factory-engraved advertisement for Meyer's Sea Food featuring a lobster. The lighter has a chromed brass case with a chromed steel insert. VINTAGE: Circa 1954. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" height and...

ARTIFACT: This is a mint, unfired circa 1968 Zippo lighter with a Shriners' (aka the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine) medallion. The Shriners began in 1871 as an ideological offshoot of the Freemasons with an initial flair for...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1947-1948 Zippo lighter with a factory-engraved "SS" advertisement with a Deco design. The lighter is in chromed brass with a nickel insert. VINTAGE: Circa 1947-1948. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" height and 1-1/2" width and 1/2"...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1946 factory-engraved Zippo lighter advertising Diehl Motor Truck Bodies of Richmond Hill, New York. VINTAGE: Circa 1946. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" height and 1-1/2" width and " in thickness. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1947 Zippo lighter with a factory-engraved sailboat. The lighter is in chromed nickel with a nickel insert. VINTAGE: Circa 1947. SIZE: Approximately 2-1/4" height and 1-1/2" width and 1/2" thickness. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a March 1989 United States Army Southern European Task Force (SETAF) Italian Carabinieri Forces Zippo. The lighter is nicely enameled with a red, white and blue shield showing a winged lion bearing the word PAZ (peace). VINTAGE: Circa...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1978 Zippo lighter for the United States Navy's USS Ogden LPD-The Ogden was an amphibious transport dock launched at the New York Naval Shipyard on June 27, 1964 and decommissioned February 21, 2007. VINTAGE: Circa 1978...