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<p>[QUOTE="Sandra, post: 299865, member: 3335"]Hi Phaik:- These are novelty ashtrays and the 60's sounds about right. I believe they were called "smoking ashtrays".</p><p>The concept is, if you insert a lit cigarette into the tray, the smoke will emit from a hole in the figure. In your instances, it would be the bowl, the gun and the pipe...can't quite make out where the vent is on your last character.</p><p>There are collectors for this novelty and as I have some "Made in Occupied Japan"</p><p>they were also produced in the 50's, some probably even earlier than that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sandra, post: 299865, member: 3335"]Hi Phaik:- These are novelty ashtrays and the 60's sounds about right. I believe they were called "smoking ashtrays". The concept is, if you insert a lit cigarette into the tray, the smoke will emit from a hole in the figure. In your instances, it would be the bowl, the gun and the pipe...can't quite make out where the vent is on your last character. There are collectors for this novelty and as I have some "Made in Occupied Japan" they were also produced in the 50's, some probably even earlier than that.[/QUOTE]
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