Topic: "Whitefriar's Bobby" ashtray

[Ivo]

My oh my - sad little pooch waiting for stubs. This is an amber ashtray in two parts - the ciggie holder comes loose. Everything is incredibly neatly panel cut and polished - including sides and bottom.  The moulded foliage on the side of the ciggie holder smacks of Lalique - but of course there is no mark.

I think what this represents is Greyfriar's Bobby,  refusing to leave the tomb of his master http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby for 14 years after his death in 1858 - and thus became a  legend.

Right?

[flying free]

Ivo it's delightful!  but don't I recall you saying you don't 'do' brown or ashtrays    I'm not entirely sure it looks the same as the sculpture though.
I haven't seen it before (that's not saying much) but I'm sure someone will find him.
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[chopin-liszt]

Wrong breed of "wee dug" I'm afraid, Ivo.
Bobby had a shorter snout and curly hair, a Skye terrier.
(I know him well.  )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

It's not any old shade of amber - it's that one with the lovely rosy glow inside, used by quality makers. 

[Ivo]

The statue was made much later and it is not even close to a skye terrier - check the original albument print in the Wiki - at least the ears are all right.  And which other dug does gravestones?

[chopin-liszt]

 

I did and I know,  but was thinking it would have been a model/replica of the statue of the wrong wee dug. That's the famous touristy sight.

In Edinburgh, talking of "Greyfriar's Bobby" generally means the statue and its close environs - a common meeting place. The story is not what comes to mind to Edinburgers, and most know that the image has been a bit.... "tartanised".

(my cat exhumed next-door's hamster.... )

[Ivo]

Throw it in the bin, quickly. And give bac k the hamster!

oh yeah. http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/brodie/2.html I think that dug has more brodie in him than any Skye terrier should.

[wolkenreb]

That's a gorgeous little set Ivo.  Beautiful colour and I love the dog - definitely has the (bow) wow factor. 

[flying free]

Greyfriars Bobby not a Skye Terrier but a Dandie Dinmont?  (I know, it's been ten years since this thread    but just noticed this article and the thread sprang to mind)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/24/faithful-terrier-greyfriars-bobby-may-have-been-a-different-breed-book-claims


To be honest, I don't really think he looks like either 


Still a lovely piece Ivo.  Could it be Czech? Inwald?

[chopin-liszt]

The shiny nose on the dug is fairly recent. He had his full patina when I was growing up. The thing about rubbing it is very new.
But I can't help thinking the dug was far more likely to have been a mongrel? 

[flying free]

That info has now made it onto the Wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby

Sue, I've no idea to be honest. Absolutely none.  However the theory that there were loads of Dandie Dinmots around but Skye Terriers were mostly on Skye funnily enough at the time, I suppose could be an argument for?  No idea why I even read that article in the first place but the thread sprang to mind 

Ivo, sorry but I don't think your dog looks at all like either.  It's snout is too square.  I guess there is artistic licence and all that though

Inwald came to mind because of the colour, the hand-finishing/polishing and that the leaves somehow reminded me of the birch leaves vases or the palm tree ones?