| Looking for the most fitting gift for your partner? If | | | | 2005 Zippo 200 - These lighters were created when |
| your partner enjoys the comfort and the relaxing | | | | the company sponsored the Zippo 200 NASCAR |
| feeling that a cigarette brings after a hard day's | | | | Busch Series Race. The engraving shows the Zippo |
| work, then he or she should not miss the best | | | | 200 logo partnered with blazing red. This is perfect |
| partner of a cigarette: engraved Zippo lighters. | | | | for the NASCAR fans. |
| For 75 years, Zippo has been synonymous with | | | | 2004 60th Anniversary D-Day - This lighter |
| lighters in America. This is because it has brought | | | | commemorates the 60 years of the D-day Invasion |
| much innovation to the lighter industry. The common | | | | at Normandy, France. There is a laser engraving of a |
| features include the hinged lid that effectively turns | | | | shield (written with a 60th Anniversary) together |
| off the flame, the improved chimney that allows the | | | | with a bottomed stamp styled from the 1940s. The |
| flame to stay even on windy situations, the better | | | | design echoes the lighters supplied to the military |
| design of the fuel tank adding to its efficiency, and | | | | during the Second World War. The history |
| the tough metal casing allowing ease of use, which | | | | encapsulated in this lighter is fitting for those who |
| also allows various engravings to be created on the | | | | have relatives who have fought during the time. |
| surface. | | | | 199 Our Century - This is the last engraved Zippo |
| The design of Zippo lighters hasn't changed much | | | | lighter collectible for the 20th century. Behind the |
| throughout the years. Some notable redesign though | | | | fireworks area list of the years that span the |
| include the 1938 No. 10 Tall Table Lighter (4.5 inches | | | | century beginning with the founding of the Zippo |
| tall, four times the capacity of usual lighters), and the | | | | Company on 1932 and ending in 1999. This is perfect |
| 1950 Lady Bradford Table Lighter (targeted for | | | | for everyone who has shared most of his life in the |
| women). | | | | last century. |
| If your partner is a collector, giving engraved Zippo | | | | 1971 Peace - Not enough words to describe this one. |
| lighters are good investment. There are an estimated | | | | The emblem has been the symbol of a generation of |
| 4 million collectors of engraved Zippo lighters today, | | | | freedom and struggle to break from conventions. |
| and the number is still growing due to the masterful | | | | Just get them and feel the love. |
| creations on the lighter's metallic casing. Engravings | | | | Of course, if these officially engraved Zippo lighters |
| usually commemorate an important historical event or | | | | don't fill your fancy, there's always personalized |
| celebrating a generation. And even if collecting is not | | | | engravers found in the Net or in your local boutiques. |
| your partner's thing, engraved Zippo lighters add | | | | Just bring your slim Zippo lighter and your wildest |
| intangible value compared to a normal present. | | | | imagination. No design is bogus enough, especially if it |
| Here are some engraved Zippo lighters you should | | | | will delight most cherished one. |
| add to your gift bag: | | | | |