Stock ref: DS2959

Circa 1950s

An excellent unused and rare to market solid oak ashtray  by the ex Mouseman craftsman Martin’Lizardman’ Dutton of Huby, North Yorkshire. mediumfumed colour with a subtly tooled upper surface and his distinctive fluidly carved lizard signature.

Martin Dutton (1921-2009) of Huby, Nr York was a talented craftsman who trained and worked at Thompson’s through the war years. His solo work from the late 40s onwards bears  his distinctive Lizard carving. Martin, who was deaf from birth, later became the senior woodwork teacher at the  Yorkshire Residential School for the Deaf in Doncaster, the lizard carving later continued by his associate Yorkshire craftsman Derek Slater who had trained and worked at Acorn Industries for Alan Grainger.

Size: 9.8(w) x 7.5(d) x 3(h)cm

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