Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray unique box measures 11" tall and 8"

measures 11" tall and 8" across at widest

all but one of the original nails on the body of the box are in place

I also imagine that the stopper once extended into a spoon

and the wrapping on the lip alternates between a very dark brown and a lighter

pins and all

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray unique box measures 11" tall and 8"If not made during wartime, this emphatically handmade ashtray at least has a very strong make do trench art sensibility, and the brass looks very much to me like melted down shell casings. I really love its fat walled, amoeba like shape, and then these shiny silver shapes (aluminum I believe, and revealed to be one plate when turned over) that read a bit like landmasses with a river running through. Really an excellent object I think, perfect on the