Photographed collector reference · Insert
1978 · Regular · Bradford — Insert reference (1978)
Zippo · 1978: Insert front, reverse and chimney-top photographs accompanying Terry Lyons’s 1978 Bradford regular-size Zippo. Lettering and construction are real photographic evidence; insert replacement and overlapping production periods prevent a guaranteed factory pairing or exact insert manufacture date. Both faces show inscriptions, consistent with the mid-1970s two-sided marking change.
- Known period
- 1978
- Plant
- Bradford / United States
- Case type
- regular
- Evidence / certainty
- Photographed collector specimen attributed to this production year; inspect the complete code, not an isolated mark
- Year attribution
- date-code-supported collector attribution
Reference images · real photographed examples
Evidence, source and dating limits
Sources: Terry Lyons
Photographic copyright: Terry Lyons
Dating caution. Case and insert can have different manufacture dates; inserts may have been replaced. A single feature does not establish authenticity.