Mascot Not for the Masses
A 'Tete d'Aigle' (Eagle's Head) glass mascot, by Rene Lalique, French, introduced 14th March 1928. The car mascots of René Lalique (1860-1945). Otherwise known as hood ornaments, bouchons de radiateur, radiator caps or mascottes, these were mostly designed and created by Lalique in the mid to late 1920s before fading from high fashion in the early 1930s. They remained on sale as mascots until 1937.
René Lalique passed away in May 1945 and the world lost a genius of design and creation as well as manufacturing. When production resumed after the Second World War, the few pieces still in the catalogue (now sold as presse-papiers or paperweights) would have been manufactured in crystal. Since most cars having such jewels bedecking them would have had chauffeurs to stay behind and guard the great cars, a passerby tempted to snatch it would be met with a blow to the side of the head.......or worse
Mascot Not for the Masses
A 'Tete d'Aigle' (Eagle's Head) glass mascot, by Rene Lalique, French, introduced 14th March 1928. The car mascots of René Lalique (1860-1945). Otherwise known as hood ornaments, bouchons de radiateur, radiator caps or mascottes, these were mostly designed and created by Lalique in the mid to late 1920s before fading from high fashion in the early 1930s. They remained on sale as mascots until 1937.
René Lalique passed away in May 1945 and the world lost a genius of design and creation as well as manufacturing. When production resumed after the Second World War, the few pieces still in the catalogue (now sold as presse-papiers or paperweights) would have been manufactured in crystal. Since most cars having such jewels bedecking them would have had chauffeurs to stay behind and guard the great cars, a passerby tempted to snatch it would be met with a blow to the side of the head.......or worse