Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray orange and brown spice chest creamy white

creamy white

printed by The Bobbs-Merrill Company in the 20s-early 30s (last copyright is 1903)

and a Tred Spivey is listed as well)

and hardly needs an incline to do so

in Art History from the University of Iowa

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray orange and brown spice chest creamy whiteIf 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