21cm (8.2in) x 11cm (4.2in) x 14.5cm (5.75in)
Silver, silver plate on copper and cedar lined cigar box, the top set with a repoussé silvered copper panel depicting a destroyer at speed cutting through the waves Signed to the lid ‘F. Lutiger’. Marker’s mark and retailers stamp of Andrew Barrett & Sons, 63-64 Piccadilly, London. Hallmarked London 1908.
Frank Lutiger (1871-1941) studied at the Ecole des Arts Industriels in Geneva and the Academie Menn, Paris before settling in London. Whilst in London he kept studios at Gledstones Road and Blythe Road in South Kensington. He worked as a sculptor, medallist, metal carver and art metalworker. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1896 and 1931, and at the Arts and Craft Exhibition Society, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, The Bristol Academy, the Royal West of England Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.