Vintage "Fatima" Mechanical Cigarette Dispenser barware with wooden sliding doors

with wooden sliding doors

This 1940s-1950s "Vornado" desk fan has been tested and is in working condition

this piece exhibits minor signs of wear consistent with age and use

MM - 10661 - 083024

Vintage "Fatima" Mechanical Cigarette Dispenser barware with wooden sliding doorsc. 1920s; Kindel & Graham New York Vintage figural mechanical cigarette dispenser. This piece was manufactured at the height of "'Gypsy' Madness" in 1920s New York. While it's now known as a racially insensitive term for Romani people, its early connotation represented something exotic and excitingly unfamiliar to Americans. The dispenser takes the form of a "gypsy" head in stereotypical headwear attached to a wooden box. This box holds the quantity