WELSBACH - ART DECO - CIGARETTE BOX - PULL UP TOP DISPENSER - -
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:2560293 | Product: Circular, pull - up cigarette holder |
| Composition: Silver Plate | Style: Art Deco |
| Brand: Pull up silver cigarette dispenser | Age: 1850-1899 |
An ANTIQUE - ART DECO - WELSBACH - Light Company Ltd. - Cigarette Holder - &nb...sp; Silver Plated I believe. Retailed through, HOLLINGS, New Oxford Street, London. They set up premises there as early as 1902. There is a worn stamp mark on the side(Needham's Patent)who are / were well known as Silversmiths. A Potted History - re this antique; It all began with DR. CARL AUER VON WELSBACH (1858 - 1929) an Austrian who invented the incandescent mantle which was used in early Gas Lighting. Welsbach has been an entity since 1877. In 1896 the Welsbach Street lighting company of America installed gas lamps with the first mantles used there in Freehold New Jersey. 1896 - 1940 the Welsbach company manufactured incandescent gas mantles. As of 1995 the firm was then, and still is, known as EMCOR Group Inc. A fascinating tale with an original Historic item up for auction. I haven't seen another one.
