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Charlie Chaplin High Polish Chrome Lighter with FREE Zippo Flint & Wick

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Personalise Reverse Lid:	+ £3.00
	if required please tell us the message to be engraved on reverse lid of the lighter upto 25 characters
Personalise Reverse Body:	+ £4.00
	if required please tell us the message to be engraved on reverse of the lighter upto 70 characters
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FONTS

High Polish Chrome
Flip Top Lid
Windproof
Branded Gift Box
Made in the USA
Lifetime Guarantee
FREE Zippo Wick & Flint

Our High Polish Chrome Flip Top Charlie Chaplin Lighter, with FREE Zippo lighter wick and flints, has a high polished chrome finish, and comes in a branded gift box, complete with a lifttime guarantee.

It features a flip top lid, is windproof, and oozes both style and class.

The lighter measures 56mm x 41mm x 10mm, just the right size for his or her pocket or purse.

If you are a company or corporate organisation looking for this lighter design or any other design in multiples please contact for discounted prices.

PLEASE NOTE: For your safety the light is delivered without fuel.

PERSONALISATION:
We also offer the option of adding your personalised message to be engraved on the reverse of your lighter, if required please use the boxes to enter your lid and/or main body of the lighter engraving, and if having your item engraved please select the font you would like your lighter engraved in.

HISTORY OF THE FLIP TOP LIGHTER
 In the 1920s, lighters were still somewhat of a luxury for smokers. But when the 1930s came along, a man named George G. Blaisdell noticed an awkward Austrian lighter that had room for improvement and acted on it.

He improved the ergonomics of the lighter's case, so it wasn't as awkward to hold. Then he designed a perforated hood for the wick, which kept the lighter's flame windproof! Additionally, he modified the fuel chamber to be more efficient, and added a hinged flip-top lid. And voila! Zippo entered the world of lighters.

Since then almost 500,000,000 Zippo lighters have been sold. There are millions of Zippo fans around the world who are collecting, buying, selling, swapping and talking about the Zippo lighter every day online and offline.

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A Zippo Lighter no matter if its an antique or a modern Zippo makes a fantastic gift for loved ones and friends,

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in 1919.

Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the music hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88. His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's identification with the left ultimately forced him to resettle in Europe during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time. In 2008, Martin Sieff, in a review of the book Chaplin: A Life, wrote: "Chaplin was not just 'big', he was gigantic. In 1915, he burst onto a war-torn world bringing it the gift of comedy, laughter and relief while it was tearing itself apart through World War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of Adolf Hitler, he stayed on the job. ... It is doubtful any individual has ever given more entertainment, pleasure and relief to so many human beings when they needed it the most". George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin "the only genius to come out of the movie industry".

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