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Dunlop Factories

Location French Indochina
Year 1922
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Composition Bronze
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Obverse description A bare-chested male figure in right-facing profile, wearing the winged helmet of Hermes, stands amid a rubber plantation with large tropical leaves in the background. His left hand holds a collection bowl beneath a tapped rubber tree from which latex drips. At the lower field, a curved banner in relief bears the legend DUNLOP CORD, and the engraver's signature P. BAUDICHON appears at lower left.
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Obverse lettering DUNLOP CORD
Reverse description The upper half of the reverse displays an aerial bird's-eye view of the Dunlop factory complex in high relief, with labels visible in the exergue area. The lower half features a circular portrait medallion of J.B. Dunlop with a full beard, his facsimile signature J.B. Dunlop inscribed below the effigy, flanked by large rubber plant leaves. The dates 1888–1922 appear above the portrait, and the circular legend SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME DES PNEUMATIQUES DUNLOP runs around the full periphery.
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