Artist Bradford Edwards thinks they silver lighters are fascinating, and he spent several years in the '90s collecting these vintage war relics. Each custom piece was engraved by a US soldier in ...

Neil Armstrong’s unused, pristine Zippo lighter sold for almost $6,000 in its original box. The lighter is engraved to commemorate his connection to the Gemini program, and it was given to him ...

A collection of 282 lighters offering a rare insight into the mindset of military personnel fighting in the Vietnam War was recently sold at auction for almost £22,000.

A lot of 282 custom-engraved Zippo lighters belonging to U.S. soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War sold at auction for over $35,000. Originally Published: November 29, 2013 at 9:48 AM EST ...

After 1945 Zippo began to produce lighters engraved with US naval boats, until every US naval vessel had its own Zippo. (The Royal Navy also has a Zippo for each of its boats.) ...

CD cover of 'Zippo Songs.' American soldiers serving in Vietnam often had their chrome Zippo lighters engraved with terse sayings, from the confidently patriotic to the darkly sarcastic.

In "Zippo Songs," Kline includes 26 sayings engraved on Vietnam War-era lighters. The New Yorker reviewed the composition in 2004, calling it "one of the most brutally frank song cycles ever penned.

Zippo will make about 13.5 million lighters this year — but 55 percent of them will be sold overseas and 60 percent of those will go to Asian markets. "Certainly, there are some strong anti ...

These engraved Vietnam-era lighters became collectors’ items; in 1997, the magazine Vanity Fair did a story about them, which drew the attention of composer Phil Kline. He will perform a pair of ...

Millions of service members carried the lighter into battle. That in itself established Zippo as an American staple. " (It) got the nickname 'The G.I.'s friend,'" he said. "So it really spurred ...

Sold for: $4,481 During his first year in office, President John F. Kennedy gifted around 40 of his closest friends and advisors with chrome Zippo lighters, engraved with his initials and the ...