The simplest and most effective way to tell whether a ZIPPO is authentic or fake is to look at the bottom engraving and the inner liner! You only need these two points!

1/ The original ZIPPO bottom engraving is to buckle the embryo of the pure copper shell upside down on an upwardly protruding steel lining, and then press it from top to bottom with a steel block with a positive engraved template. forming. Therefore, the middle of the genuine ZIPPO bottom engraved strokes is smooth and neat. There are fine frosted dots in the middle of the engraved writing on the bottom of the fake ZIPPO lighter (I don’t know the specific imitation process, but it may be made by a machine needle). You can tell the fake shell from this!

2/ Except for the old models, the original ZIPPO inner liner sparklers are all diamond-shaped cross-grained, while all domestic imitations are horizontal-grained sparklers. This can completely distinguish the fake ones. Liner!

The above two are the easiest and most accurate ways to distinguish. Although fake ZIPPO lighters look very similar to real ZIPPO lighters in appearance, real ZIPPO lighters have many detailed features that fakes do not have. These special details ensure that real ZIPPO lighters can be used The reliability is trustworthy.

Taken together, although the workmanship and appearance of high-imitation fake ZIPPO lighters are similar to the real ones, their quality and reliability are much different from real ZIPPO lighters! A fake ZIPPO only costs a few dollars, but can be sold for dozens or hundreds of dollars. However, its poor performance has ruined the reputation of real ZIPPO and made buyers afraid to buy ZIPPO lighters for fear of being deceived.

Buyers can basically avoid buying fakes after mastering the two common sense points in this article! Another thing to note is that the lining engravings on fake ZIPPOs are often clearer than those on real ZIPPOs. On the contrary, many real ZIPPOs are blurry and the fonts are much thinner!