Remington Firearms manufacturing Company.

Zippo mfg is still producing advertisement lighters for firearm companies such as Remington. Similarly for Harley Davidson, automobiles mfg, playboy magazines, liquor brewery, etc. To list a few. Advertising/trademarks series are commonly widespread, closely knitted alongside Zippo's manufacture history & produced consistently with frequent switching designs of the same icon.

Various companies/corporations contract with Zippo for these lighters customized to their specifications. Just like name-cards or necessity items(cups, shirts, pens etc) bearing their names/ trademark symbols, Zippo lighters are another commodity selected for promoting themselves with.

Zippo stepped-up sales by selling advertisers to the general consumers, with legal rights/authorization from respective places. Some advertisers are found within Zippo international/regional sales Catalog & their websites among many assortment of design choices.

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This piece of advertisement is a sales sample/specimen for Zippo's marketing. Zippo sales representatives would carry some of these lighters while making their products known around places such as retail, tobacco shops, convenient store etc. Similarly during Zippo's introduction into any country/territory.

Brushed brass casing's facade. Note the bottom stamp distinctive from most regular coding. Complete digits numbering the year of Zippo founding (left), and the making of this item (right).

High Polished, Gold-plated finish with Zippo lighter's emblem.

This is 1 highly collectible piece from a lighter's emblem series produced during the 90's. A few other finishes i can name are, high-polished chrome/midnight chrome/polished brass.

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Picture from Google Image

Picture from  'eBid'

Year of: 2000.

Here're a couple productions from year 2000. The Rose-gold plated was made in January of that year whereas the Street-Chrome in July. Note the distinctions between these date codes.

With reference to my 'knowing when it's made' post. I pointed out that Zippo had a unique 'combined' bottom coding as marked in this street-chrome.

Hence i came out an analysis that Zippo mfg company continued using the roman numerical numbers(only) till mid-year & started with their new 'combined' date code for the rest of the year.  Perhaps?