Description
Black and white 10″ x 13″ ad shows a well-worn Zippo with names and dates scratched into the case. The ad headline reminds you “Don’t lose your Zippo. Lifetime friends are rare.” . The text explains the story of this individual lighter owned by Tom Rotsinger. It talks about being dropped into the ocean, dropped into a five gallon bucket of paint and being left in a foul-weather jacket and not returned into the jacket was reissued. After each of these mishaps it would still work yet one day, after sixteen years, it finally didn’t work. Tom returned it to Zippo who, as they promise, fixed it for free.
Source: April 19, 1968 Life magazine.
