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Exclusive, Convention Pieces, Artist Proofs, Limited Edition, Signed or Numbered Shelia's Other Miscelleanous Categories ZIPPO LIGHTERS : SIGNED KHA2181 PHILO BLAISDELL HOUSE EXCLUSIVE and NUMBERED 397/1500

PHILO BLAISDELL HOUSE EXCLUSIVE and NUMBERED 397/1500 BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA Product Code: KHA2181 I watched Shelia sign this piece personally. This is perhaps the most unique collaboration by either Zippo® or Shelia's®. This first house, in a series that was expected to be ten houses. However they ceased production at 5 pieces because of a change in the Shelia's manufacturing. There will be no more of the original production runs made which should make this piece more valuable. The three dimensional house contains a new Zippo brand lighter painted to match the house where it slips into a slot on the left front porch. Don't wait to snatch this one up! It's not available to Shelia's Dealers. This auction is for the serious Zippo® or Shelia's® Collector Size: Size: 7 " Wide X 5 1/4" High X 1" Deep. Issue Date: 01/17/2003 Series: Exclusive Edition Limit: 1500 NOTE: Numbers match on house, lighter and authentic certificate. "Keeping the History AliveTM A unique, consecutively numbered limited edition collectible series of architectural miniatures with integral matching pocket lighter, recognizing historically significant buildings associated with the Zippo Manufacturing Company, both past and present." History on back, "Philo Blaisdell was born in Winterport, Maine in 1858. He came to Bradford in 1891 to run the Standard Wood Company, a family enterprise which supplied firewood to most of the larger cities on the East Coast. This Bradford home was built in 1894 on the corner of Blaisdell Avenue and Congress Street. On June 5, 1895 Philo and his wife Sarah celebrated the birth of their son George. In 1903 Philo founded the Blaisdell Machinery Co., selling it in 1917. His son George was a co-owner of the Blaisdell Oil Company when in 1933 he introduced a lighter that worked even in a breeze. Intrigued by the name of the recently- invented zipper, he called his new lighter Zippo." Shelia's has evolved into Custom Wood Gifts following Bankruptcy reorganization. Each piece comes in its original package, NEW and never displayed. Our price $89.95.

SIGNED KHA2181 PHILO BLAISDELL HOUSE EXCLUSIVE and NUMBERED 397/1500

Product Code: KHA2181