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Lot 429: Two Vintage Aluminum Champagne Ice Buckets Including a Taittinger Advertising Example
A lot comprising two vintage aluminum ice buckets of tapered cylindrical form. The first is a commercial advertising bucket for Champagne Taittinger, Reims, constructed from cast aluminum with a matt, oxidised finish. The body features three raised horizontal bands around the base and is fitted with two drop-ring handles on decorative mounts cast in the form of grape leaves. The front is decorated with an embossed rectangular plaque marked CHAMPAGNE TAITTINGER Reims, with a circular emblem of a figure on horseback above. The second bucket is a polished aluminum example decorated with four incised horizontal bands around the midsection. It is fitted with two cast metal side handles with ring pulls.
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