Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray painted wooden woman as well as the title

as well as the title

which also make pretty nice little pedestals

or else display it tabletop over any sort of roundish object

allowing his to be positioned standing or sitting

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray painted wooden woman as well as the titleIf 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