Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray unique box pins and all

pins and all

though certainly an unusual one

measures 11" tall and 8" across at widest

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

The underside of the base is stamped Russia

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray unique box pins and allIf 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