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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 75232, member: 56&quot;]This piece is dependent on its label for any historical connection.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/BomaHaidaBirdWhaleCanadaAshtray-b_zpsvrlgn5ij.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The foil label is largely unreadable, but there’s enough to be interesting.&nbsp; The first line reads “Official Opening”.&nbsp; The second line used to read Tasu B.C. Development, but only fragments of those first letters remain.&nbsp; “Wesfrob Mine” can be read and, below that, “June”. I believe this refers to the opening of a mine on the south side of Tasu Sound and the west coast of Moresby Island, in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia.&nbsp; The mine was opened in June 1967 (which would be the date of this ashtray).&nbsp; It closed in 1983.&nbsp; Ore in that locality had been known to the Haida people of the region since the late 1700s, which explains why Haida imagery was used for this piece.&nbsp; Wesfrob was a division of Falconbridge Nickel Mines and this development produced gold, silver, copper, and iron from both open pits and, later, underground mines.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v337/hoozzatt/Temp/BomaHaidaBirdWhaleCanadaAshtray-f_zpsl1xkmxny.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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