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Lot 136
"St. Christopher" Cigarette Dispenser for Mounting on Dashboard, c. 1920
Estimate:
£600 - £1,000
Sold for:
£300
Timed Auction
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Description
Without Reserve

A highly unusual silvered-bronze, dashboard-mounted cigarette dispenser, featuring a finely detailed St. Christopher plaque applied to the front. The dispenser with back plate for mounting has two cylinders on either side to take pencils, and a lift-up lid for filling. Bearing a small medallion engraved MINISTERRE DE FINANCES, with "IC" monogram either side. The plaque is signed G PRUDHOMME, lower left. French, circa 1920.

Georges-Henri Prud’homme (French, 1873–1947), sculptor and medallist, was born in Landes, France. He attended the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs then at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied sculpture under Falguière and engraving under Alphée Dubois. Exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon from 1894, he received la Légion d'Honneur in 1923. Prud’homme’s works feature in the collections of both the British Museum and the Science Museum, among others.

Size: 5 x 4 x 1 in. (13 x 10 x 2.5 cm).

*Please note that the cigarettes depicted in the photo are not included in this lot.