Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray unique box I am guessing it is

I am guessing it is stuffed with sawdust

with gold loop at top for wearing on a chain

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

and think the design is brilliant

though certainly an unusual one

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray unique box I am guessing it isIf 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