Ring Man Now The ??Lighter?? Man....:hot:

[Rosco Bookbinder]

Went out before the rain started and did a few strips, a playground, a playfield area below a church and the area around an old store. Found the 1914 next to a tree in the playfield and my second lighter in less than a week behind the store. (the prefix on the phone number is not from here) I now have a lighter for each of my found pot pipes.......

 

[DavHut]

Your lighter is kind of an oldie - it's made in the USA, probaly in the 70's.

There used to be any number of imitators of the Zippo lighter, most of which were cheap and very often used as advertising promos, like yours.
Some names that you might see in this flip-top lighter line are:

Wind Master
Wellington
Penguin
Prince
Konwal
Idealine (Japan)
Royalite
Hadson
Storm King
Golden Bell and of course,
Park, like yours.

There is no small amount of collector interest in them, from what I can tell. They have at least two collectible requisites: they are both useful and moderate in cost. Besides, nowaday with the Do-Gooder "we-know-what's best-for-you" social propoganda/engineering working against tobacco, they are only destined to fade into obscurity.

Youre off to a good start in collecting them.

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

[quote DavHut]Your lighter is kind of an oldie - it's made in the USA, probaly in the 70's. Youre off to a good start in collecting them.[/quote]
Thanks for the info Dave. Not like a ring then, a lighter isn't just a lighter...eheheh.......

 

[awhitster]

That reminds me, I have a bag of about 20 vintage lighters I got at a garage sale the other day for a dollar. Gotta get 'em up on Ebay.