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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 4402540, member: 13874&quot;]I think it&#039;s a <i>student piece</i>. I e, a student&#039;s effort to show what they can do to qualify for employment in a glass (blowing) studio.</p><p><br /></p><p>Definitely vintage as there has been a progressively diminishing demand for ashtrays for the last 40 or so years, at least in the Western world.</p><p><br /></p><p>The top parts may not represent anything identifiable but only to demonstrate the student&#039;s abilities in shaping glass.</p><p><br /></p><p>If a practical use was intended they&#039;d be handy to pick up the ash tray to move, empty.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too bad about the two cigar/cigarette &quot;rests.&quot; Had they been omitted the piece could have been intended as a decorative bowl for candy,&nbsp; bonbons. And have a much larger market than an ashtray these days.</p><p><br /></p><p>I LIKE odd glass/crystal art pieces and have amassed a few over the years. If I owned this piece it&#039;d join the others in the &quot;brag cabinet&quot; as an interesting piece of art glass. This is not to be interpreted as a WTB. My brag cabinet is already sufficiently crammed full.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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