After World War II, Zippo Manufacturing Company grew rapidly as Zippo Lighter became popular item for advertising, promotions, commemoratives and, or course, for being a practical and reliable article for lighting cigarettes. Designs became more sophisticated as new line drawn, leather covered, Town & Country and other models were introduced. In the late 1940's and 1950's, engraving and decorating of Zippos involved much manual labor, with the Company employing many hundreds of artists and craftsmen to engrave and decorate the blank Zippo canvases. Most of the lighters on this page have been used by Zippo employees for practicing their art, testing, experimenting and sometimes just having fun.