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Gift ideas inspired by my book

Namiki maki-e and raden Two Carps pipe for Dunhill. At https://www.alpascia.com/en/product/39028/dunhill-namiki-two-carps-limit

15 rue de la Paix was the first Dunhill boutique to sell the unique Namiki decorated items. It is no more. Read more in my book, for far less than this pipe.

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Stunning Dunhill Aquarium lighter in Perspex decorated by Ben Shillingford. 

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1930s Dunhill-Namiki Tavannes “La Captive” purse watch

After the wristwatch was popularized in the early part of the last century, Dunhill among others led in a flurry of putting watches everywhere and on everything - pens, lighters, compacts, belt buckles and, in collaboration with watchmaker Tavannes, exquisite small so-called purse watches that would spring open with the press of a button. They came in silver, gold, and very rarely in decorated lacquer and hand-painted real gold (and inlaid mother of pearl - raden) made in Japan by the artisans of Namiki, with whom Dunhill Paris had negotiated an exclusivity in 1929. This is an exquisite example.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234299885842

For more about the heyday of Dunhill and Namiki, please check out my book, linked in bio.

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Dunhill Paris onyx and lapis Art Deco box.

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Dunhill Paris concealed watches by Tavannes, 1920s-1930s.

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If someone buys me this Dunhill-Namiki maki-e pipe decorated by Kyusai Yoshida, I’ll take up smoking, For sale at https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dunhill-Namiki-Maki-E-Tobacco-Billiard-Pipe-Signed-Kyusai-Yoshida-NO-BOX/124267592847

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Namiki hand-decorated sterling silver Art Deco pillboxes made with sprinkled gold and urushi lacquer for Dunhill Paris in the 1920s.

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Art Deco silver Dunhill table lighters.