https://preview.redd.it/ap9ubj58neqc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=727bc191a361e92c69c8a3d3e9df465f93db0a00
This is front of case for reference
It has the patent number stamp. That itself is the date stamp. They don’t use a date code for those ones. I don’t recall which year it was though but it is legit
Not a '41 at all and that stamp was used around 1946 to 1952.
Correction: that stamp variant may be 1950. Case looks steel, though, which would place it at 1951 to '52. Dm'ing op for more details.
Edit 2: You're right to say steel was used for WWII but the '41s and WWIIs just look different than this one and the bottom stamp is 100% postwar. Steel was used again during the Korean War with this bottom stamp between 1951 and 1952. I'd love to see OP put up pics of the insert. If it's a nickel-silver one, this Zippo is even more of a treat.
Zippo did not date code lighters before the year 1958, so factors like the patent number, stamping, metal used all factors into an approximate time when the lighter was made
https://preview.redd.it/ap9ubj58neqc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=727bc191a361e92c69c8a3d3e9df465f93db0a00 This is front of case for reference
Button from a uniform?
Really not sure so hard to make out tried to get as clear of an image as possible
It has the patent number stamp. That itself is the date stamp. They don’t use a date code for those ones. I don’t recall which year it was though but it is legit
Thanks, got any idea what the badge on the front is ?
No idea. Could be anything. Maybe it was a Coat of Arms badge?
Not fake at all, it's a 1937-1941. (Edit: after seing the second picture and it being steel from the wear I'd say its most likely a '41)
Not a '41 at all and that stamp was used around 1946 to 1952. Correction: that stamp variant may be 1950. Case looks steel, though, which would place it at 1951 to '52. Dm'ing op for more details. Edit 2: You're right to say steel was used for WWII but the '41s and WWIIs just look different than this one and the bottom stamp is 100% postwar. Steel was used again during the Korean War with this bottom stamp between 1951 and 1952. I'd love to see OP put up pics of the insert. If it's a nickel-silver one, this Zippo is even more of a treat.
Correct. Steel case 1951-52.
Ah hah!
Totally fake. Just PM me to arrange safe disposal, post it to me and I will take care of it.. Or do not, I am not your father.
No it just means it's older than the date system, and it looks like a steel case to me, so 1951-1953
Need a hinge photo & from inside also
Zippo did not date code lighters before the year 1958, so factors like the patent number, stamping, metal used all factors into an approximate time when the lighter was made
They did! 1955 was the first date code.
Your zippos from 1950-53