Zippo Lighters
Operation Deep Freeze Zippo Lighterr
This USS Forster Zippo, selling price $225. Seems it’s a rare 6 color Zippo.
Stan Correll, SOG-2 I served on USS Forster from June ’58 to May ’61. He sent along pictures of his Zippo.
These Zippos are owned by Steve McLachlan, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Another group of Zippo lighters sent along by Steve McLachlan, Christchurch, New Zealand, Jan. 1, 2006. “I’m attaching scans of 3 Zippos which were sold through the Armed forces Canteen council shop at Scott Base which feature both US and NZ insignia, A NSF Operation Deep freeze Zippo and lastly a scan showing two 1990’s vintage Bic Flick lighters from Scott Base.”
In September, 2010 I saw a really cool USS Thomas J Gary Zippo on the NZ TradeMe auction site, a Town and Country model. I started bidding on the item and decided I’d had enough when the bidding hit $175. At the time I didn’t know that Paul Fleming was the gent I was bidding against.
The next month I met Paul and Martine at their shop in Christchurch, NZ. Later that evening Paul drove us to Port Lyttleton to have a look around, then to their home for a wonderful evening of talk, tea and looking at Paul’s Zippo collection. Oh yea, we also experienced a 5.2 earthquake while visiting Paul and Martine’s home.
Of course, the TJ Gary Zippo was now in Paul’s possession and I tried, all evening, to negotiate it away from him, with no success. The best I could do was get some pictures.
John Altfeltis of Edgewater, Colorado sent along these excellent examples of vintage Deep Freeze Zippos and a USS Forster Zippo.
