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 Blaisdell Zippos
  

This rare Town & Country transitional Zippo from 1969 depicts George G. Blaisdell who invented the Zippo lighter in 1932 and who founded the Zippo Manufacturing Company in Bradford, Pennsylvania. He named the Zippo after the then recently invented zipper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is a 1962 President's Award Barcroft Zippo from "Mr. Zippo" to Jack Chellow, probably a Zippo employee.