Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston handwoven kilim image size: 9 3/4”x17”

image size: 9 3/4”x17”

with all of the hinges working well and the drawer opening with ease

Austria in 1928

circa 1920s-40s

extra big rear foot

Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston handwoven kilim image size: 9 3/4”x17”This is one of the most curious ashtrays I have encountered, with a very interesting history! Made of copper, at its center is the inscribed name backwards of "Rev. Edmund Squire." A bit of research informs me that Squire was the founder of the Pilgrim Church in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, who, on Nov. 2, 1862the second year of the Civil Warconvened 16 people at his Dorchester home to unite themselves into what they called an unsectarian Church