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Ashtray

Collection Type

  • Household accessories

Date

1892-1907

GUSN

GUSN-170537

Description

Porcelain square ashtray with a painted splayed American eagle in center with red, white and blue shield on its chest, holding a banner in its beak and an olive branch and arrows in its talons, circle of stars above its head, and a border of gold fluer de lis and scrolls around the inner rim.

Details

Descriptive Terms

ashtrays
porcelain
Ashtray

Inscription

The National/Remembrance Shop/Washington, D.C. (stamped)
T & V/Limoges/France (stamped)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Tressemanes & Vogt (Maker)
The National Remembrance Shop (Retailer)

Dimensions

1/2 x 4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.973

Places

Limoges (Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France)

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