A brass pocket lighter with applied art work.  The lighter is made by the Zippo lighter company of Bradford, PA.  The lighter was then personalised by the American Pop artist, James Rizzi.  Rizzi's work was described by the critic Glenn O'Brien as a cross between Picasso and Hanna-Barbera, combined with an evocation of Native American friezes. Rizzi himself listed his idols as Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Bugs Bunny.  In 1996 he achieved his most high-profile job, as official artist for the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. He created a series of paintings of the opening ceremony that are now in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. The "Olympic spirit" and Rizzi's art were a perfect match.  Rizzi went on to have success in both Japan and Germany where he undertook a number of corporate commissions from painting three of the newly launched VW Beetles in 1999, a series of postage stamps, and television films among a host of other projects.  Rizzi was commissioned to paint a number of different designs for Zippo.  This rare lighter is in excellent condition and is presented in the original hand completed presentation box which states that it is part of a limited edition of two hundred pieces, this being number one hundred and one.  The lighter is also stamped 101/200 on the and was made in America in 1994.