French Cigar Guillotine

[El Presidente]

 

A Full Working French Cigar Guillotine w/ Medusa Heads
This is a super Quality Item. It is very heavy for its size. It is a full brass working Guillotine.... so you pull the chain and the Guillotine blade rises, you put your cigar through the hole and drop the Guillotine. There is even a bucket there to catch the Cigar End. The other side even has the Kneeler there replicating an historical Guillotine. To the top are two Medusa Head busts, and it sits on a fitted timber base. This is a special piece.

[JohnS]

I don't know. It's a tad macabre for me!

[SparklePony]

I love this. Wow. 

[Gubbins]

I've seen these before. The one I saw was the same idea but with a slightly different decoration. It seemed to work reasonably well. They definitely look the part, are well made, and a fantastic conversation piece. No idea how much they cost, but I'm guessing quite a lot.

I always wondered how much damage it would do if you decided to put your finger in place of the cigar.  🤔 I don't know why.

[joeypots]

Cool piece. A little more elaborate than a thumbnail. I was shocked to learn that the last execution by guillotine in France was on September 10, 1977. 

[CaptainQuintero]

7 hours ago, joeypots said:

Cool piece. A little more elaborate than a thumbnail. I was shocked to learn that the last execution by guillotine in France was on September 10, 1977. 

I think that's the one Christopher Lee saw in person, it's mentioned a few times in interviews. Or the last public one.

[BrightonCorgi]

Is there enough weight on it to get through today's cigars?

[potpest]

Foulkes and Sons featured one in use 3:27

[MrBirdman]

3 hours ago, potpest said:

Foulkes and Sons featured one in use 3:27

Classic "influencers."

Guys, the guillotine was designed that way to because it was the most efficient way of cutting off the head of a human, not a cigar. Why on earth you would want to think of that while cutting your cigar poorly is beyond me. And it's so tacky.