I start this thread for two reasons. Firstly so you can all show off your prized Zippo possessions, and secondly so I can ask a question.
I have this Zippo which I bought back in about '03, '04, just because I thought it was cool, and I was still a smoker at the time. Its case is made of solid titanium, which I thought was pretty neat. I carried it for a while, so it is used, but it's in pretty good shape still, and I kept the box.
My question is, and I know we can't give valuations here, but is it something of value to collectors? Should I be looking after it properly, or is it cool just to leave it in the draw where it has been for the last eight or nine years? I'm not really in a hurry to sell it or anything, but I just don't want to devalue it if it is worth money. I only found one for sale on the internet, and it was really expensive, but it was NIB, and mine is used. And what those people were asking, and what they are worth could be very different things.
Anyway, just curious, more than anything.
Have any of you guys got any cool zippos to show?
I have this Zippo which I bought back in about '03, '04, just because I thought it was cool, and I was still a smoker at the time. Its case is made of solid titanium, which I thought was pretty neat. I carried it for a while, so it is used, but it's in pretty good shape still, and I kept the box.
My question is, and I know we can't give valuations here, but is it something of value to collectors? Should I be looking after it properly, or is it cool just to leave it in the draw where it has been for the last eight or nine years? I'm not really in a hurry to sell it or anything, but I just don't want to devalue it if it is worth money. I only found one for sale on the internet, and it was really expensive, but it was NIB, and mine is used. And what those people were asking, and what they are worth could be very different things.
Anyway, just curious, more than anything.
Have any of you guys got any cool zippos to show?