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The predominant alcohol-related advertising to appear on Zippos was produced for brewery companies. Budweiser was an early adopter of the use of Zippos for marketing and advertising, and slogans such as "This Bud's For You" can be found on Budweiser Zippos
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1936 Zippo with a
logo in metallique for Manru, a New York beer brewed by the Schreiber Brewing Company. The reverse has the initials
"DLM" in metallique. |
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1962 loss-proof Zippo
for Hamm's Beer -
"Thanks for a job
well done", with signature of
George J. Faust.
Hamm's was
founded by Theodore Hamm in 1865 near Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
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1968 Zippo reads
"Ron Bacardi - el
mejor
del mundo
desde 1862".
founded by Don
Facundo Bacardi
Masso in Cuba,
Bacardi based in Bermuda today.
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1971 slim Zippo
adverting Rainier
Beer
"Alaska...
North to the Future". The Rainier
Brewing
Company
was founded in Seattle, Washington in 1886 and was
closed in 1999.
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1974 Zippo with a can of Genesee Cream Ale, also known and "Genny Cream" was introduced in
1960.
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1976 Zippo
advertising Miller High Life, a
leading beer
brand of Miller Brewing
Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
1979 Zippo
advertising Primo
beer from
Hawaii
was brewed in Hawaii until 1998 when it went out
of business
after
the brewery
and bottling operations were shipped to the mainland.
100
years in production, the beer was introduced by Honolulu Brewing
& Malting Co. Ltd.
in 1898.
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The high-polish
1981 Zippo on
the left and the 1982 regular matte finish Zippo on the
right
are prototypes with Bud Man,
the "Dauntless Defender of Quality" Bud
Man became the official mascot of Budweiser. These are the only
known examples of Bud Man
appearing on a Zippo.
The back of the
high-polish model has the signature of
Ted Rosequist. |
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1985 prototype
black Zippo
with a logo for Moosehead
Beer on one side and for Blackhills
Bandits, Ellesworth AFB, South Dakota on
the other.
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1987 prototype
brass Zippo with advertising for Matty's Light Ale, Blackburn, Lancashire. |
1987 prototype
brass Zippo for Vondel, a Belgian brown ale. |
1993 high-polish
Zippo with the reverse-engraved logo of Budweiser. |
1994 Zippo "Proud
to be Your Bud" a very special gift from my son and best bud
Jaime. |
See the Drunk and Hungover Zippos
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1988 prototype
brass Zippo advertising Skeeters Inn in Eldred, Pennsylvania. Eldred
has a population
of 868.
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Another 1988
prototype advertiser for Skeeters, with a gray paint
finish.
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1989 Zippo for
Miller High Life.
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1992 Zippo with
Froggy's Saloon, Daytona Beach, Florida, the world's
largest biker bar.
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