1965 Town & Country Grumman Vintage Zippo Lighter - Classic Iconic Piece

Iconic Town & Country Grumman Vintage Lighter!!

This lighter is in the box, but it's used and not mint. 

It's 57 years old and has been fired. It has light scratches and pocket wear with no dings. The all important paint is all there and looks good. The hinge is firm with the Zippo ping and the insert is correct. The box is correct but has some pen scribbling on the face. 

I've done my best to show the light wear in a couple of the photos. We have graded this Very Good 88. It's nice in its box, but because it is I just want to be clear that its used with great paint - no loss.  

The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a leading 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft. Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and partners, it merged in 1994 with Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman.

Leroy Grumman worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation beginning in 1920, and when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft Corporation and the operations were moved from New York City to Bristol, Pennsylvania in 1929 Grumman and his partners, all ex-Leoning Aircraft employees, (Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul, and Clint Towl) started their own company in an old Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. factory in Baldwin on Long Island, New York.

The company registered as a business on December 6, 1929, and officially opened on January 2, 1930. While maintaining the business by welding aluminum tubing for truck frames, the company eagerly pursued contracts with the US Navy.[1] Grumman designed the first practical floats with a retractable landing gear for the Navy, and this launched Grumman into the aviation market. The first Grumman aircraft was also for the Navy, the Grumman FF-1, a biplane with retractable landing gear. This was followed by a number of other successful designs.