Ashtray
date: label: date made
content: 1890-1955
notes: label: Description
content: Raised circular bowl ornamented with a triple-reeded band and three, equidistant, arrow-shaped cigarette holders applied at its rim, and five turquoise stones of different geometric shapes bezel set on its rounded sides; a small, incuse swastika-shape is stamped between the stones and a larger version of the motif is stamped three times on the flat bottom. No foot ring. Bottom underside struck incuse "STERLING" in sans serif letters, "J.H" between two sideways Ys, and "105".
label: Description
content: Mark is that of John Hasselbring/Hasselbring Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, NY; in business, circa 1890-1955. Firm originally named after founder, incorporated in 1911 as the Hasselbring Mfg. Co., and finally purchased by Crown Silver Co., circa 1955.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, Ph.D., in memory of Ella Rice Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.1729
label: catalog number
content: 60.1729
label: accession number
content: 200122
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ashtray
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: turquoise (mounted stones material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 5 3/8 in x 5 in; 5.715 cm x 13.6525 cm x 12.7 cm