Steel, 42cm (16.5”), up to 8cm (3.2”) wide, designed by famous French designer Philippe Starck. The torch, when turned over, has the shape of a flame. The flame was lit in Olympia on November 27, 1991, when the relay through Greece started. It left Greece on December 8 on the Concorde to visit about 70 countries and islands worldwide, to arrive in Paris on December 14. 5,500 torchbearers carried the flame 5,536 km (3,440 miles) around France to Albertville where the cauldron was lit at the opening ceremony on February 8, 1992, by Michel Platini and Francoise-Cyrille Grange, a Savoyard girl. One of only 130 torches. Numbered. EF. Rare. ($65,000)