My First Love

I got my first zippo in November 2002. It was a Zippo Slim Venetian - High Polish Chrome that I bought in Johor Baharu. Disappointed not being able to buy the fern leaf zippo in Auckland, I choose to buy one in JB. It is the most cherished zippo from my collection.

It has been my best friend ever since. Best friend a smoker can have .....

I never thought by buying it, I would start an interest in collecting metal lighters especially zippo lighter

The bronze painted ligther from Kiwi

At long last, I finally started it. This will be my first post of my metal lighter collection site. And to commemorate of the first post, I give you my first metal lighter I bought when I was in Auckland. A simple lighter, bronze colored ( not good of a quality, I guess they just sprayed it with bronze paint....).

The front of the lighter is a map of New Zealand. I bought it in 2002 for NZ$2.00 . Initially, I wanted to buy a zippo lighter with an engrave fern leaf at the front of the lighter, but I was only carrying like a NZ$40 per day quota for all my expenses. So unfortunately I had to pass the NZ$70.00 zippo.

Well what to do.....