Topic: Really weird gross bowl/ashtray history please

[nigel benson]

Yep, I agree with the OH and Frank, an ash tray.

The cigerette doesn't really need a groove to rest in when in can rest perfectly well on the wide wall of this piece. I'm sure I've seen these years ago in offices. Just imagine it in the clutches of a chain smoker........urghh!


Nigel

[Margi]

Thanks guys so its the girls against the boys on this one.  I have emailed Ian from glassian thanks Anne for that link and maybe he will give the final answer.  But please do allow your suggestions to keep coming in.  At least its got the OH interested in my glass 

[Margi]

OH was just looking at it again and he says if It was definately an ashtray it wouldn't explain the unbalance of it as in it spins around and wobbles too easily hence the really bad scratch marks on the bottom center.

[Frank]

Base, probably wood, is missing.

[malwodyn]

My vote is for pavement light - the second photo shows that no attempt has been made to decolourise the glass.  Is anyone still making these?  I regularly walk past a shop which has two missing in a pavement grid - an accident waiting to happen!

[Margi]

OH has dismissed pavement light purely on the basis that there is no where for a locking key.  If you turned it upside down it could rest against some sort of metal for example but then it would look very ugly indeed as you would see straight through the glass which sort of defeats the object.  Why didn't they just stick with concrete and tarmac pavements then I would 100% be able to dismiss it as a pavement light    So we are back to either ashtray missing its wooden rest block or wall brick.
Margi