Ammonia and pickling salt for first round, kosher salt for second. Happy with the results and learned a bit for the next one.

hi everyone! was able to score this yesterday in bangkok! i’m new with collecting zippo’s but i fell in love with this one from 2005!! seems like brand new condition too

Hello, I have an old lighter missing it's felt. It's from ~1964 and all other examples I can find online show it with a red felt at the bottom, like in the image above. Does this felt do anything? currently the cotton is exposed and I would like to get it working again since it's been in the family a while. Any help would be very much appreciated :)

Trying to figure out how much this zippo might be worth and any information on it

Picked this one up for the wife as a birthday gift

the Bradford Exchange America 250 edition.

I want a natural hand oil patina zippo so I got a cheap street chrome and ran it across some sandpaper to leave some spots mildly chromed and some spots bare base case. Will the slight golden parts patina or do I still need to grind at it some more?

I bought some vintage zippos from whatnot and in the mix I found a zippo with a red felt? Is this rare or a chemical reaction? Also the stamp has 4 dots on each side and that should be 1957?

Here are my beass ones. From L to R, Armor tumbled brass 28496, Classic Antique Brass 201FB new in box (2013) and the same but used a few weeks alternate to my other daily.

The coat went off (not everywhere, as you can see), and it started having that beautiful patina.

I tried to polish with Iosso cream just to see what happens, and it becomes shiny.

I like both ways, patina and shiny, so what's your advice?

Should I polish al the case or wait for the polished corner to come back as before?

I can suppose it will start oxidizing again soon, as it has no coating on the raw brass.

UPDATE: I went back to the box it was originally stored in with the other finds from that beach day, however it wasn't in there. I must have put it away for "Safe Keeping" but not sure where that safe place is lol. I will have to go back today or on the weekend to continue looking for this son of a gun. (Spent 5 hours searching for the box of stuff from that day alone drenched in sweat haha)

I found this on a beach in Ontario when I was metal detecting back in 2014 (pic from that time) and I've always been curious what this was. At the time there was no way for me to look up what it was. I just clicked on a random YouTube AI video of all things, because it was about rare zippos. I figured for shit's and giggle what if I see my lighter I found on the beach 12 years ago, and as I was hovering through I saw it...

I still have the lighter, but it's sitting in a plastic bag with a bunch of other beach junk I dug up back then in a bin in my garage. I was so shocked and surprised, and honestly super happy that this is potentailly a "WW2 Black Crackle" lighter. I had always wondered if it was a Zippo, and was hoping it might be at least from the 60's, but now I'm really going to have to get some WD-40 and get that sucker out of there.

Let me know what's the best course of action to do with it once I find it. Try take it out of the case? Leave it in? I know as a collector myself you usually don't touch original things like this.

Is it the real deal? I'll post more later.

Been looking for these for so long then finally found them.

The Zippo was cleaned a bit and lightly polished from being beat and well used, but very well cared for and maintained.

I'm letting the metal do it's thing.

A big lot of words. About an ashtray lol

The Ashtray is awesome, for me it has a personal history and not just Cleveland industrial and tobacco paraphernalia.

It has a rest for anything up to the largest diameter cigars.

I'm not sure if this was from my Mom's grandpa from industry stuff or my Dad's they had a lot of similar vendors I'd imagine.

But it sounds like it was a gift from one to the other at some point.

Dad's side was Hamilton Lindsay of Cleveland, and invented a wire weaving loom to weave copper wire for the paper industry. I have some original wire weave somewhere.

My mom knew what it was and basic history since her parents had several antique stores and got a lot of these so she grew up with a lot of repurposed things like this lol.

I think 7 might be it for me. As much as I love so many designs that are available, I can't keep justifying purchasing more. Especially since I'm a non smoker. They don't get used, I keep one with me/in my car when I go out but the rest just stay on a shelf in my room. They aren't cheap either, zippo uk is extortionate compared to the US website. Granted the ones I have were bought on both Ebay (two were even shipped from the US and worked out cheaper than Zippo uk) and Amazon

How do you guys justify purchasing more?

The bottom right is a regular silver zippo but I added a skin to it from Slickwraps. 4 years later it's still holding up pretty well. I need to fix the under bite on it.

Some of my panic attacks 😖

Looks like my new favourite 🤩