eBay Vintage Zippo 1958 Town & Country Naval Air Weapons Lighter | NEW | VERY RARE |NEAR MINT CONDITION IN BOX | VERY RARE 1958 High Polish Chrome Zippo Lighter | Town & Country | Naval Air Weapons | 1957 Participant | Original Box | RARE PAT. 2517191 | Correct Insert | Lighter was deep-etched, then artist applied multiple layers of airbrushed, acrylic enamel paintWill Combine Shipping | LIGHTER SOLD IN FULLY WORKING CONDITION | (Condition: Brand New)
Welcome to BKCranston! Please take a moment to read the description, condition and browse the photos. Description: A thirteen piece group including in no particular order; C.1952 Community National Bank, 1963 Ansco Professional Photo Products, 1950 Pat. 2032695 engraved and enamel fish (never fired), C.1953 U.S.S. Hambleton DMS 20, 1960 International Graphite Electrodes, 1950 U.S.S. Aldebaran, 1970 Nor-West Machinery Movers, 1981 Iten Chevrolet, 1975 engraved and enamel U.S. Naval Mobil Construction Battalion Ten U.S. Pacific Fleet, 1959 engraved and enamel Slim Line vernier caliper logo w/ "P", 1964 Slim Line U.S.S. Rich DD 820, 1972 Engraved and enamel Chicago Bears, and 1979 Hatteras in box with paper.. Measures: 2 3/16" tall (5.5cm) Condition: Overall a nice collection. Condition varies from never fired to surface corrosion, some scratching, overall normal wear from use. Please view photos as they are part of the description. Be sure to check out our other items for more unusual and interesting estate finds and collectibles. We have an ever growing selection of Buy-it-Now items and eBay auctions added weekly.We are happy to combine purchases to save you money in shipping charges. Please take a minute to read 30 day return policy. If for any reason you are not happy with your purchase, please contact us immediately. We are here to rectify any issues that may arise for all of our customers!!! We strive for only 100% positive feedback!My name is Kevin Bruneau and I have been in the fine arts and collectibles business for over 30 years. I've owned antique shops, auction houses, a consignment shop, and even did a TV reality show hunting down collectible treasures. Today I travel hundreds of miles per week to find interesting pieces to bring to my BKCranston eBay site. Most items are sourced from local house-calls, auctions, and estate tag and yard sales. My interests are broad so you will never know what I will list next. It could be an old master paintings or a baseball card collection. Be sure to check in often, as my store and auction offerings are forever growing and changing with fun and interesting new inventory. Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution (Condition: Pre-Owned)
Click photos for larger image! Description & Condition: Up for sale is lot of two vintage zippo lighters owned by George Yamaoka. George was the first Japanese / American ever accepted to the New York Bar association and was the lawyer appointed by the Allies to defend the Japanese war criminals. The first is a 14K glod filled example with 5 barrel hinge and was a gift and is engraved " In appreciation Practicing Law Institute. The other is a three barrel example Patent # 2032695. Both are n good condition and come from direct descendents to George.Here is some info on George Yamaoka: The life of George Yamaoka, a Japanese American lawyer who was appointed by the Allies to defend accused Japanese war criminals after World War II, represents an interesting variation on the Nisei experience. Yamaoka was born in Seattle on January 26, 1903. His father, Otohiko Yamaoka, was a Japan-born lawyer and community leader. As a youth, the senior Yamaoka had become one of the youngest men ever elected to the Diet. After being imprisoned for treason for his involvement in a conspiracy to assassinate officials in Shizuoka, he spent ten years in prison before being released through the intervention of allies. He then emigrated to the United States, became a labor contractor, and was heavily engaged in bringing over workers for labor on James J. Hill’s great Northern Railway. In later years, after exclusion of Japanese labor ended his contracting business, Otohiko Yamaoka distinguished himself as proprietor of the T?y? Trading Company and of a local Japanese newspaper, Shin Nihon (New Japan), and he served as President of the Japanese Association in the state of Washington George Yamaoka (he is not to be confused with the California Nisei baseball star of the same name) was the oldest of Otohiko and Jhoko Yamaoka’s six children. George’s younger brother and sister, Otto and Iris Yamaoka, would each become known as screen actors who appeared in multiple short roles in Hollywood movies of the 1930s.After graduating from Seattle High School, where he starred in athletics, the young George attended the University of Washington. There he served as treasurer of the Cosmopolitan Club, an Asian American student organization at the university. In 1926, George visited Japan, and later served as secretary to the Commissioner General for Japan at the Philadelphia exhibition. Around this time, he enrolled at Georgetown University Law School. While at Georgetown, he served as business manager of the Georgetown Law Review.He received his law degree from Georgetown in 1928, and thereafter moved to New York, where he served as secretary to Hiroshi Saito, New York Japanese consul (and future Japanese ambassador to the US). In 1930 Yamaoka accompanied Saito as part of the Japanese delegation at the London Naval Conference. While in London, Yamaoka served under future consul Kaname Wakasugi in the press section of the Japanese delegation. Yamaoka’s fluency in Japanese and English and his writing skill won him admirers. He would later appear in a WMCA radio round table in November 1934 in New York devoted to the negotiations.In 1931 Yamaoka became the first Japanese American to be admitted to the New York State Bar. (Apparently the state Bar Association was not certain whether to admit people of Japanese ancestry to practice, despite Yamaoka’s American citizenship and legal training, and exposed the candidate to rigorous questioning before its Committee on Character and Fitness before finally admitting him).Once admitted to practice, Yamaoka joined the law firm of Hunt, Hill & Betts, an admiralty law firm which handled multiple cases for Japanese shipping firms. In 1933, he married a French woman, Henriette d’Aurioc, and in the next years lived in North Hempstead, Long Island. The young Yamaoka proved to be a capable lawyer. In 1938 he attracted public notice when he won a large damage suit in the Federal Court of Appeals on behalf of the Japan Storage Battery Company against the Philadelphia Electric Storage Battery Company. The same year, when the New York Buddhist Church sought to buy a property on West 94th Street, Yamoaka handled the transaction. In 1940 he was made junior partner in the firm.During the prewar years, Yamaoka was named president of the Tozai club, the exclusive Japanese club in New York, and enjoyed close connections to the New York Japanese consulate and to the pro-Tokyo business community.In December 1941, in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he lost those connections, and the business with Japanese firms that had sustained his law practice. Perhaps as a result of his close Japanese connections, Yamaoka seems to have kept rather a low profile within the community during the war. He briefly joined with Larry Tajiri and T. Scott Miyakawa as a sponsor of the Committee for Democratic Treatment of the Japanese (ancestor of the Japanese American Committee for Democracy) and worked for some weeks with the committee’s community welfare section, trying to find jobs for Japanese Americans displaced from employment by the war.However, he appears not to have been an active participant in either the JACD or of the New York branch of the Japanese American Citizens League, founded in 1943-44. The one indication of his involvement was a 1943 letter to the War Relocation Authority’s New York office expressing interest in fighting a proposed alien land law imposed against Japanese Americans in Arkansas Following the end of the war, however, as the War Relocation Authority closed its doors, Yamaoka would help organize The Greater New York Citizens’ Committee for Japanese Americans. He also helped found New York’s Japanese American Association and would later serve as its president. (Both Otto and Iris Yamaoka, who had been confined at Heart Mountain during World War II, moved thereafter to New York, presumably under brother George’s sponsorship).In 1946, at the request of the Japanese government, Yamaoka was invited by General Douglas MacArthur, the US proconsul in occupied Japan, to come to serve as counsel general of the American defense section at the Tokyo War Crimes trials before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. (He joined his brother Sergeant Carol Yamaoka, who was serving with the occupying U.S. Army).As a practicing American attorney, Yamaoka was able to coordinate the work of the Japanese defense attorneys with the American military and civilian lawyers assigned to act with them. While he was initially appointed a part of general defense staff, and not assigned to individual defendants, Yamaoka served as American Associate Defense Counsel for Shigenori Togo and American Associate Counsel pro hac vice for defendant Koki Hirota, a former premier and foreign minister, and also joined in the defense of former prime minister Hideki Tojo and other high-ranking Japanese war crimes suspects. The defense challenged the legality of the tribunal, arguing that it imposed ex post facto law on the defendants in the form of crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, that judges drawn from Allied nations could not guarantee a fair trial for the defendants, and that Japan’s war had been in self-defense after suffering from economic embargo. The judges rejected these arguments Interestingly Yamaoka returned to New York before the international tribunal rendered its final judgment. Upon his return to the United States, Yamaoka stated publicly his belief that the accused enjoyed a fair trial, but did not feel that international law covered the trials. When he sought to return to Tokyo in order to be present for the final verdicts, he was denied permission to return as an attorney. Instead, Yamaoka registered as a foreign trader in order to attend.When Hirota was found guilty and sentenced to death—the only civilian to receive the ultimate sentence Yamaoka and his colleagues were outraged. Yamaoka believed Hirota should have been acquitted or received a lesser sentence, considering his role as a civilian and his inability to control the military that essentially ran the government, and in that way “took the fall for Japan’s civilian leaders.”When Hirota, former Premier Hideki Tojo and five other defendants appealed their death sentences to the U.S. Supreme Court, Yamaoka was invited to join the defense team at the last moment. In December 1948 he flew to Washington DC to participate, and presented his views during oral argument. It was the first time that a Nisei attorney had ever argued before the high court. Yamaoka argued that even if the sentences had been handed down by an international tribunal, the Court had the right to examine the of the verdicts. “So long as there was American participation in this trial, to the extent of that participation the safeguards of the Constitution must apply. No American officer can act in contravention of those safeguards.” The Court refused to intervene or grant appeals, and the condemned were executed on December 23, 1948.After returning to New York, Yamaoka rejoined Hill Betts (now called Hill, Betts, Yamaoka, Freehill & Longcope) and worked with its offices in both New York and Tokyo. As his junior partner Francis Sogi recalled in his memoir Kona Wind:“In the early 1950s, as George Yamaoka and I were the only lawyers able to speak both English and Japanese and were the only ones who were qualified to practice in both jurisdictions, we attracted a lot of business from American companies eager to do business in Japan. We represented some of the leading firms in Japan, some from pre-war days, with a client list that included Mitsubishi International, C. Itoh & Company, Marubeni-Iida, Nissho-Iwai, Toyoda Tsusho and Toyota Motors, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Steel, Kawasaki Shipping Company and many others. We also represented some of the major city banks such as Bank of Tokyo, Mitsubishi Bank, Mitsui Bank, Tokai Bank, Daiwa Bank, Fuji Bank, and others.”In addition to his law practice, Yamaoka occupied leading positions in a large number of Japanese financial institutions and companies with branches in the USA. For example, in 1955 he was one of the founding directors of the Bank of Tokyo Trust. He also served as president of Nippon Kogaku and chairman of the Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company.Yamaoka remained active in other activities. In 1960 and 1961, he traveled to Washington DC to testify before congressional committees. The following year he published an essay in the anthology Doing Business Abroad, on foreign investment in Japan and Japanese import and export regulations. In 1968 Yamaoka was decorated by the Emperor of Japan with the The Order of the Sacred Treasure (Third order). In his later years, Yamaoka divided his time between New York and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In November 1981, while riding in a taxicab in Manhattan, he suffered a heart attack and died. His collected documents from the Tokyo War Crimes trials are housed at the Georgetown University law library.George Yamaoka’s life and career seem paradoxal. Despite his West Coast birth and Japanese ancestry, he was able to integrate himself into mainstream life and business circles in cosmopolitan New York, and made use of connections with Japan (his father’s abandoned homeland) to support his law practice. At the close of the US-Japanese war, he was appointed by the US government to help defend the Japanese officials taxed with responsibility for that war. He tried vainly to preserve them from execution by a stirring disquisition on Constitutional law to the U.S. Supreme Court. Following his service in Tokyo during the US occupation, he built a lucrative set of business relationships with Japanese and American firms. Please view all the photos and if you have any questions please ask. THANK YOU FOR BEING INTERESTED IN MY AUCTION, BE SURE CHECK OUT OUR OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE INTERESTING ESTATE FRESH ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES LISTED JUST ABOUT EVERY NIGHT ON E-BAY!!! 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2002 - USS PORTER DDG 78 - SPECTRUM FINISH. 1994 - USS KITTY HARK CV 63 - ULTRALITE - A FEW VERY LIGHT HANDLING MARKS ON THE ULTRALITE PANELS -. 2003 - U.S.S. TICONDEROGA CG 47 - BLACK ICE FINISH. 1999 - NAVAL TRAINING CENTER GREAT LAKES ILL.
Vintage ZIPPO 67–75 Made in Niagara Falls, Ontario ENGRAVED * H.M.C.S.
ANNAPOLIS CONDITION:
NEW in original box, NEVER FIREDHas no flint
or fluidPHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM BEING AUCTIONEDThe logo is engraved
and filled with enamel. It is NOT a decal. This lighter was commissioned by the
H.M.C.S. Annapolis to be purchased by the members of that ship from their
shipboard canteen.
HMCS nbsp;Annapolis nbsp;was an nbsp;Annapolis class nbsp;destroyer nbsp;that
served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later, the Canadian Forces. She
was the second Canadian naval u
The other is the Hawks. 2000 - GUNSLINGERS VFA-105 -Strike Fighter Squadron 105 also known as the "Gunslingers" is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron based at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia.
See all pictures. Estate sale find. I believe listed year is correct but see all images to confirm. Used in overall good shape. May need a flint or minor repair. In as condition, no cleaning or restoration attempted. Check out my other zippo’s Soldier’s hometown was engraved on the back of the lid as shown. Listed as Macado PA. (Condition: Pre-Owned)
eBay Please see full description for details. 1967 Vintage Vietnam War Town & Country Paint APL-21 Naval Support Zippo Lighter Estate fresh vintage 1967 Naval Support Activity Vietnam War Zippo lighter. Authentic Vietnam Zippo with awesome factory transitional Town & Country paint silkscreen graphics. APL-21, Nav Supp Act; Det; An Thoi, Vietnam '67 - '68 Please check out our other listings for 2 more exceptional Vietnam Zippos from the same estate. Fresh out of a local estate. Excellent condition with no evidence of use. Appears unfired with white wick. Some light to moderate storage scratches throughout. Pictures sell!Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.The complete eBay Selling Solution. (Condition: Pre-Owned)
There was no box, but we have prepared a non-original ZIPPO outer box. emblem of Naval Air Force Made in 1974. You will get what you see in the pictures.
Collection Of 38x Rare Boxed Zippo Lighters US & UK Navy Celtic Scrimshaw Brands etc .
Only three vintage Lighters are struck; RFA Bramble leaf, brass old Holborn and Royal Welch Fusiliers Falklands Zippo. Many have original orange warning stickers on rear and all are in full original cases. All naval and maritime Zippos are from their original origin ships.
Any questions or more photos required don't hesitate to ask
Condition is New. Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class.
1940's Vintage Zippo Lighters Mint 3 Barrel Hinge 2032695 - Various Naval Ships. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS First Class Package. 22 total various 1940's Vintage lighters - all mint condition All ships engraved were commissioned in 1940s.
Naval Operations Base (NOB), Iceland, Christmas 1942. The insert on this lighter has no markings (unmarked) You can start to see the pat number through the black crackle finish, 2032695.
On 1 October 1965 the US Navy established Boat Squadron One as the umbrella unit for the newly arrived Patrol Craft Fasts (PCFs or Swift Boats) with Division 101 based at An Thoi. The first Swift Boats (PCF-3 and PCF-4) arrived at An Thoi on 30 October 1965.
From the recent estate of a Naval officer, NOS or new old stock, vintage ZIPPO commemorative brass lighter of the recommissioning of the U.S. battleship New Jersey in 1982. Lighter is as found, in original box and plastic sleeve. Please be sure to look at all pictures for best description. Listing other cool things from this estate!
eBay This vintage Zippo lighter lot features engravings of USS Naval ships. USS Shasta AE-33, USS Valley Forge CG-50, USS California CGN-36, USS Eversole DD-789, USS Ingersoll DD-990, making it a must-have for any military memorabilia collector. The timeless design and quality craftsmanship of Zippo lighters ensure that this lot will be a treasured addition to any collection. With the iconic Zippo brand and a military theme, this lot is perfect for those who appreciate both quality and history. Whether you're a collector or just looking for a unique gift, this vintage Zippo lighter lot is sure to impress. (Condition: Brand New)
Lighter was difficult to photograph due to it being high polish but please ask any questions if you need additional information. (Condition: Brand New)
U.S.S. Wisconsin BB-64 Re-Commissioned October 22 1988 Unlit Solid Brass Zippo Lighter in case
USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is
an Iowa-class battleship, the second ship of the United States Navy to be named
in honor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. She was built at the Philadelphia
Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and launched on December 7, 1943
(the second anniversary of the Pearl Harbor raid), sponsored by the wife of
Governor Walter Goodland of Wisconsin.
During her career,
Wisconsin served in the Pacific Theater of World War II, where she shelled Japanese fortifi
It is in good condition, showing general signs of wear on the case as well as on the inside. The spring to hold the top open does not work or is missing, and the the pin to hold the top on is also not original as well as slightly loose.
