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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 9558461, member: 111&quot;]With due respect, it was originally sold as a cigarette urn, as were the F.M. Whiting pieces, the size is typical for a pedestal base piece - I have gathered dozens of period ads and catalog references over the years, mostly silver, but other materials as well, dating primarily from the mid &#039;40s to mid &#039;60s.&nbsp; As already said, they are a bit too deep and wide for toothpicks (or matches), but could certainly be used for anything desired - packed away now, but I used one for Q-Tips for a long time, a friend has a lot of them and often uses them as individual vases at her dinner table.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ashtrays or ash receivers, both large and individual were&nbsp; produced without grooves on the rim fairly often, those you&#039;re showing were sometimes marketed as ashtray/coasters, and sometimes just one or the other (as in the first ad I posted) - many of the sterling &#039;butter pats&#039; for sale now were originally sold as individual ashtrays, but really, better purposed for butter...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bit better image of similar from 1952 (note &#039;Ashtray-Coaster&#039;):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]456745[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This 1947 ad shows one like I used for Q-Tips (note height 3-1/8&quot;):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]456746[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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