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1999.45.1

Circular ashtray made from the base of an artillery shell.

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1999.45.1

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Collection type
Object
Description
Circular ashtray made from the base of an artillery shell.
Long description
Circular ashtray made from the base of an artillery shell. The shell is a British '18 pounder' shell. The date of manufacture for the shell is given as 1916 on the base of the ashtray. Also on the base there are several other numbers and lettters inscribed. The ashtray has been highly polished. [MdeA 11/1/2000]
Cultural groups
European
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Nicholas J. (Nick) Saunders
Date / Period
Date made: 1916 Date made: After 1916
Date collected
By 1999
Acquisition information
Purchased: 17/12/1999
Materials and processes
Material Brass Metal, Process Inscribed, Process Recycled, Process Polished
Dimensions
Diameter 100 mm base, Height 16 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1999.45.1
Research and responses

This ashtray is as likely to have been made in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]

Probably made in France or Belgium [information removed from maker field] [SM 16/9/2020]

Associated publications
This object features in the First World War iBeacon trail launched in the Museum in January 2016. Full audio transcription available at: https://soundcloud.com/pittriversound-1/sets/ww1 [HA 07/01/2016]

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