I was a smoker until four or five months ago. For the last two years of my life as a smoking person my favorite cigarette lighter is a silver-plated Zippo, given to me as a birthday present from a very good friend of mine. Although, I do not smoke anymore I keep the lighter on my desk next to my computer monitor to remind me of my friend.
It is a very elegant, stylish object that has a rectangular shape. The lighter is about two inches and one quarter tall, about an inch and a half wide, and about thirteen sixteenths thick. My Zippo resembles an old, silver cigarette case, like the ones that I have seen in the movies from the late1930's and the early 1940's, but it is smaller in size, and does not open sideways. Seven eights of an inch from the top I can see the cut that goes around the metal body, and separates it from the lid, which is covering the operational parts of the lighter. The lid is attached to the lighter with a small knuckle, situated on the on the left thick side of it. .
The face of my Zippo is engraved with four columns of six orthogonal figures that are tall about five sixteenths of an inch and a quarter of an inch wide. Diagonals are connecting the opposite corners of the little rectangles. Even with the engravings on the front of the lighter the surface of it is polished enough to reflect the sunbeams that manage to sneak trough the blinds. During the afternoon hours, when the sun shines trough my window, I can use the reflection from the lighter on the wall as a sundial. .
The edges of the face are rounded, just like the rest of the edges on the lighter. They are connecting the thick sides of the lighter. The wide, thick side on the top is slightly rounded, like the left and the right thick sides, and just a little bit arched. Those three sides do not have any engravings, and I can see a distorted reflection of the things that surround the lighter on my desk, which is due to their roundness.