Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray painted wooden woman very thin walled

very thin walled

Robert Sheridan's mother on the back of it: "Bob won third prize for this picture June 1945 when in 2a2 at Brooklyn prep

making me want to spend the whole day playing

or else display it tabletop over any sort of roundish object

which also make pretty nice little pedestals

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray painted wooden woman very thin walledIf 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