Alfred Dunhill Furniture

Alfred Dunhill, London Of extraordinary quality, this beautifully hand-painted 'Aquarium' humidor was a special order collaboration for Dunhill, between Ben Shillingford and watercolour artist Margaret Bennett and features beautifully painted pink lotus flowers being circled by koi carp to the heavy Plexiglas lid. All four sides of the box are profusely decorated with shoals of freshwater fish...

Alfred Dunhill, London Of superlative quality and scale, this Aquarium humidor is the first of its kind that we have owned or indeed seen. A beautifully painted special-order coll...

Alfred Dunhill, London A scarce Dunhill ‘Namiki’ maki-e enamel table lighter with chrome-plated hardware, with a glossy black lacquer background and ...

Alfred Dunhill, London An extremely scarce 'Aquarium' cigar box made by by Ben Shillingford for Dunhill, circa mid- 1950. The sides of the box are in honey-coloured satinwood vene...

An extremely scarce ‘Namiki’ table lighter in ‘Giant’ table size with silver-plated hardware with a glossy black background with a red and yellow chrysanthemum with foliage to the front, and three gold and red flowers with foliage to the reverse. Marked Dunhill, Made in England with patent number 390107 to the base. Bears artist’s signature in gold. Notes: The decoration to the bodies of these table lighters is created using the very skilled lacquer technique known as maki-e (translated as ‘sprinkled picture’). This method of decoration started in Japan in the Heian period (794–1185 AD), where layers of wet lacquer are dusted with precious metal powders to create patterns or images, often using very delicate, fine brushes. The lacquer dries before another layer of powder and lacquer is applied, and so on, until the desired depth of detail and shine is reached. The Namiki factory, a name synonymous with this style of decoration, was founded in Tokyo and resurrected this ancient technique, as a means of decorating their patented lacquered fountain pens...

Alfred Dunhill for Rolls-Royce. An extremely rare example of the pocket lighter design known as the ‘Rolls-Royce’, depicting a radiator grille with distinctive badge and ‘Town C...

‘The Joseph Lucas’: A historically interesting collaboration from the 1950s between Alfred Dunhill and Joseph Lucas Ltd, the well-known British manufacturer of components to the auto...

A ’Half Giant’ or ‘Bijou' table lighter by Alfred Dunhill, in heavy chromium plate with a vertical, linear engine-turned decoration to the body, the base and the lift-arm signed ‘DUN...

A beautiful example of the hand-painted 'Aquarium' series created by Ben Shillingford for Alfred Dunhill in the 1950s, in the 'Half-Giant' table size. This example has beautiful, ...

An extremely rare ‘Yard Rule’ table lighter, the body engraved as a rule up to 36 inches (90 cms), the lift arm signed ‘Dunhill’, in a bespoke dark blue tooled fitted Dunhill present...

A very rare, and most likely unique gold-plated 'Aquarium' table lighter, the perspex body enclosing a hand-painted English Royal coat of arms to the front and reverse, using the highly skilled intaglio technique, where the design is built up in reverse, the arms set against a deep blue background and to each end panel the Royal cypher for Elizabeth II Regina in gold. Most likely made as a unique, special commission for the present Queen’s coronation...

Alfred Dunhill, England A superb and extraordinarily scarce, 18 carat gold Dunhill ‘Unique ‘A’ Sports’ combination wind-proof lighter and pocket watc...