Photographed collector reference · Case & bottom stamp
Zippo · 1949 — Case & bottom stamp reference (1949)
Terry Lyons identifies a chrome-plated brass case and nickel-silver insert. The photographed three-barrel hinge is a period example; some later 1949 cases transitioned toward five-barrel hinges. Hinge style alone is not an exact date code.
- Known period
- 1949
- Plant
- Bradford / United States
- Case type
- regular
- Case material
- brass
- Case finish
- chrome plated
- Insert material
- nickel silver
- Evidence / certainty
- Real photographed collector specimen; year attributed by Terry Lyons, not confirmed by a factory date code
- Year attribution
- attributed
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.