Tall Carved Whimsy with Three Balls in Cages, Inlaid Hearts, and Carved Initials mid-century ashtray The Hazard of Tomorrow

The Hazard of Tomorrow

"10 Cents a Copy

hand-etched with an jam-packed array of Freemasonry symbols

I really really love the how the face on this carving is not at all what one might expect based on the rest of her

I've since learned this is a collegiate tobacco silk

Tall Carved Whimsy with Three Balls in Cages, Inlaid Hearts, and Carved Initials mid-century ashtray The Hazard of TomorrowA very nicely carved old tower of a whimsy, with three balls in cages tapering to four nicely finished posts on top. Around the perimeter of the footed base are two inlaid hearts, one inlaid diamond, and a second cutout diamond where the inlay appears to have been lost. Carved into three consective sides above are the initials H, J, W, which were painted or crayoned orange and I assume the initials of its proud maker. 10 11 16 x 1 9 16 x 1 1 2 and in