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But they're not portraits of soldiers, they're portraits of Zippo lighters. CBS News correspondent John Blackstone asked him if it seems strange to see the lighters depicted as art. "No," he says.

The Art Deco style of the 1920s and '30s pervaded design, ... And then there were the lighters and cigarette cases to accessorize the newly fashionable toxic pastime of smoking.

The Vietnam War-era Zippo lighter—part pop art and part military artifact, according to author Sherry Buchanan—was sold in PX stores in-country, and engraved with personalized messages and ...