RARE ZIPPO LIGHTER DIOGENES STATION SINOP TURKEY. SUPER

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A RARE VINTAGE ZIPPO LIGHTER. THE ZIPPO LIGHTER HAS THE DIOGENES STATION SINOP TURKEY CREST TO THE FRONT DEPICTING A LANTERN BEING HELD WITH A LIGHTENING BOLT GOING THROUGH. THE WORDS "DIOGENES STATION SINOP TURKEY ARE WRITTEN ON THE LIGHTER. THE LIGHTER IS STAMPED "ZIPPO BRADFORD, PA" TO BASE. THE LIGHTE SPARKS AND IS IN WORKING ORDER, WILL NEED FUEL. THE DIOGENES STATION HAD AN OFFICIAL NAME FOR THE SITE "TUSLOG DET 4", HOWEVER IS REFERRED TO AS "DIOGENES STATION" BECAUSE THE GREEK PHILOSOPHER DIOGENES (412-323 BC) WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN SINOP OR "THE HILL" AS IT SAT ON THE HILL TOP ABOVE THE TINY, WALLED, ONCE GREEK TOWN OF SINOP. THIS LIGHTER WOULD GRACE ANY COLLECTION. SOLD WITH NO RESERVE SO BID TO BUY. TUSLOG Det 4 (Sinop) was a small listening base on the Black Sea Coast. The base was locally known an NATO "Logistics" base, but was mainly populated with Army Security Agency personnel. There were Air Force and Navy personnel on base, but were definitely in the minority. I don't think there were more than 200 military personnel there at any one time. Hippodrome was the remote operations area on a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea. It was staffed with Army personnel exclusively. There was another "Ops" building, that held the other services.

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