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The popularity of advertising of products and services on Zippos continued through the 1970's.
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This 1963 Zippo
with a knight on his horse
is for Ritter Company Inc. - Service
Training
School. The reverse has the signature of Michael
Brady.
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1961 Zippo with a
red robot-like character with an N on its chest. |
1960 Zippo with a
very smiley character "have a happy day!"
is for Carson Roberts,
a Los
Angeles based advertising agency that came up with
the idea of "31
Flavors" for Baskin
& Robbins.
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This is a
Canadian Zippo from the 1960's with a nice graphic of a wedding couple
advertising The Hi-Fi's. |
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A piano player is
engraved on this 1966
Zippo for Casey's of Limestone Nwe
York "Since 1865".
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B.T. Udee
with
raised hair says "For Heating Cooling American Furnace Co., St Louis
Mo" on 1966 Zippo. The company was acquired by Singer
in
1968. |
1965 Zippo with
an angry
looking bee for Real-Kill, a pest control brand
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1965 Zippo with a
family reading and
"FPS". Could it
meaning Family
Planning Services,
or something else?? |
This 1966 Zippo
with a man with a
fez if for Ararat
Patrol Kansas City
Mo. The Ararat
Patrol is a unit
of
The Shrine Temple,
a fraternal organization. |
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This 1966 Zippo
has a main with an
umbrella keeping him dry from
Hard Times, Sickness, and
Financial
Distress raining down on him
advertising the TRW Employees
Federal Credit Union. |
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1968 Zippo
depicting a striding giant with a truck in his hand advertises Holland
Motor Express, Inc. - "You can't beat the Big Dutch
Fleet". |
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1973 Zippo with
the face of a clown. The advertiser is Livengrin Foundation,
an addiction recovery organization based in Eddington, Bucks County,
PA.
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1969 Zippo
advertising Blue Bird National Latex Company, a major balloon
manufacturing company based in Ashland, Ohio.
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1972 Zippo with
an orange Smiley
Face. This well known graphic was popularized in
the early 1970s and can be found on a wide range of novelty
items. |
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1974 Zippo with
the pink plaid Toppie, The Top Value Elephant. Top Value Stamps, like the
S&H Green stamps, is a form of customer loyalty program. The
stamps were given away by retailers to customers who would paste them into
special books which could then be redeemed for
merchandise.
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1979 Zippo with a
saluting pump
man for Yant
Equipment Co. Inc.,
a distributor of storage
tanks in Lincoln Nebraska, |
1981 Zippo with a
flirting "Wonder Gal" in a swimsuit.
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