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Rare Dunhill Salaam Namiki Cigarette Lighter With Arc de Triomphe Motif

About the Item

Rare Dunhill Salaam Namiki Cigarette Lighter With Arc de Triomphe Motif A Collaboration between Jaeger LeCoultre and Dunhill in the 1940's described as the most understated and unknown lighter Despite its thoroughly oriental name, the Salaam Namiki was developed from a collaboration between the oh-so-British business of Alfred Dunhill, Swiss Jaeger LeCoultre and Japan’s Namiki Manufacturing Company. It’s hard to believe that something quite so rare came from a firm that, today, makes roller-ball pens for a few dollars, but the Salaam Namiki is Japanese art at its most technical and detailed. They were developed from a collaboration with Jaeger leCoultre’s Henri Rodanet. Dunhill’s immediately post-war lighters tended towards the elegant but austere, but from 1947, things began to change. The company introduced a series of Salaam lighters featuring maki-e images of Paris landmarks - the Eiffel Tower, L’Opera, Notre Dame and even the Paris coat of arms. Businesses were quick to catch on and commissioned models carrying their logos, like PanAm and Jaeger LeCoultre. Even the French Army and a roll-call of other government departments had their own models. This intricately crafted lighter is by the superior Maki-e artist, Masato Sato. The ancient art of Maki-e requires extremely thin layers of lacquer to be applied, smoothed and polished, whilst creating the pattern by precisely sprinkling flakes and powders of precious materials, such as gold, silver and mother-of-pearl, onto the wet lacquer before each layer hardens.

Creator:

Alfred Dunhill (Maker)

Dimensions:

Height: 22.45 in (57 cm)Width: 13.39 in (34 cm)Depth: 0.28 in (7 mm)

Style:

Art Deco (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Brass

Place of Origin:

Switzerland

Period:

Early 20th Century