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I apologize for the lack of posts here. It's been a little bit more difficult than I expected to get photos of these things that I think are worth posting, and there have been some higher priority things in my life.

I promise to get back to this, hopefully soon after I return from my upcoming vacation. I'll post something on Hongkie Town when I've resumed posting here.

H.R. Giger Collection

H.R. Giger is of course the Swiss artist who did the design of the alien in the Alien film series. He's also done album covers for ELP, Blondie and others.

I have three of these limited Japanese Zippos - numbered limited edition - although I have two of the same one for some reason. Click on any image to see the full sized photo.

Here's the first one:









This is the second one:














And here is the third, same type as the first:








Tops of the boxes, showing catalog numbers:



Sides of the boxes:


Each lighter is packaged with this book published by Taschen: