Unusual Hobbies

I buy, sell, and trade Zippo lighters. I've managed to get a couple of the early models recently and my friends are constantly on the look out when traveling. A good friend was at an antique store last year and saw some of the "Slim Line, or Ladies Lighters" in the very back of a case. She asked about them and was told they were acquired from an estate 20 plus years ago and there had been no interest in them. I was called after pictures were sent and I got the entire lot of 9 lighters for a whole $20.00. Once I got them, I realized they had been sent back to Zippo to be repaired, the post mark on the boxes dated to March 9, 1970.