About this site
VintageLighters.ru - this is the first online encyclopedia of cigarette lighters in Russian. Website VintageLighters.ru opened November 23, 2009, and is a subsidiary of the portal project ZippoCollector.ru - Russia's largest site devoted to collecting lighters Zippo.
Descriptions are given of lighters on the site by Reference to the principle. Please note the following important points:
- Year: indicates the approximate period of the early release of a specific model, no matter for how the model was produced. It is not always possible to know precisely indicate the year of issuance, in this case does not indicate the exact year and decade. For example, if the model was produced around 1945, but more precise data are not available, then the states in 1940 as the period from 1940 to 1950th years.
- Under the heading "Years" is always indicated only a decade, but not the exact year of manufacture lighters.
- Approximate cost: indicate the approximate lower and upper limit value based on the statistics of sales of lighters on auction Ebay, auctions and other collector's market as a whole. This option is very approximate and reflects the most current price spread collectible or that the model lighter. Under certain circumstances, the price of this model may go beyond the scope of these costs, so cost figures given are only approximate.
If you have any questions about specific models, they can ask in the comments to each entry. For general questions and discussion is a forum . If you have an interesting or rare lighter, you want to brag, or to know something about it, and welcome to the forums - Create topics, upload photos, ask and keep in touch :) To upload pictures into the posts of the forum must register on the site, for simply writing to the forum registration is not necessary - a forum open to all!
And finally, a little parting word from the world famous American collector and an expert on vintage lighters Tolkien, Larry (Larry Tolkin), which has in its collection of several thousand lighters. It was he who wrote to me, and I give all collectors :)
