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Title: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: msmollyann on September 17, 2011, 05:57:20 PM

I am hoping to get some information on a Camel cigarette table lamp that I recently saw - less about the value but more about the style and origin.
The lamp is basically a large brass (looking) woman's hand (left) - maybe about 24" high at the most - and the lighted part is a large cigarette in between the first two fingers.  The CAMEL wording/emblem is shown across the the base/wrist of the hand.
It looks to me that the style was very much art nouveau, but I can't find any information about Camel cigarette lamps anywhere.
Does anyone have any thoughts or info?

Thanks!!   :D

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: snowflake on September 17, 2011, 06:12:30 PM

Hi, MsMollyAnn. Welcome to the forum! Any chance of getting a picture?

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: msmollyann on September 17, 2011, 07:22:27 PM

Agh!  I knew I should have gotten a picture of it - I figured I could find at least one example of it online but there's nothing (which is weird to me)!  I will get a picture of it in the next few days.

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: hosman321 on September 17, 2011, 07:41:53 PM

I can't seem to find anything either! Would love to see the picture when you get it. If we can't find any information about it after that, you may have to contact a camel cigarette collector's club. If it's really rare, I'm sure they would love to tell you all about it. ;)

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: mart on September 17, 2011, 08:00:33 PM

I have never seen or heard of one like that !!  Its possible that only a few were made !! Was the price reasonable?? I would like to see that one too !!

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: snowflake on September 17, 2011, 08:32:41 PM

I've been searching and can't come up with anything. Sounds like a unique item.

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: rockandrollrods on September 18, 2011, 01:13:27 AM

I've heard about them. Not the one you're describing exactly, but if memory serves, they were put out in the late 60s to early 70s to people that collected enough Camel Bucks. Pictures of course would help.

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: fancypants on September 18, 2011, 11:25:24 AM

There were purported to be 500 of these units made , msmollyann .

You can see a bit more on these lamps @ :
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/camel-cigarettes-camel-smoking-hand-131842922

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: snowflake on September 18, 2011, 11:45:26 AM

Ohhh, you are good, fancypants! I was dying to see what it looked like!

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: hosman321 on September 18, 2011, 01:11:55 PM

I want to see what it sold for!

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: mart on September 18, 2011, 02:45:08 PM

Wow !!  Thats a monster size cig !!!  Thanks fancypants for the pic !! I would like to know the selling price too !!

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: fancypants on September 18, 2011, 02:48:00 PM

Yeah , mart ... looks like Big Tobacco personified !

Title: Re: Info on CAMEL cigarettes lamp
Post by: msmollyann on September 18, 2011, 05:54:09 PM

Awesome!!! Definitely very much like that, if not the same. I guess that it's not really art nouveau, but it certainly is cool.  Thanks for all your help!   :D