Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray painted wooden woman Bs and C’s

Bs and C’s

Signed BC (engraved by hand) on the back

as well as the title

seems to have been finished with a light shellac or varish

or else display it tabletop over any sort of roundish object

Trench-y Heavy Handmade Brass and Aluminum Ashtray painted wooden woman Bs and C’sIf not made during wartime, this emphatically handmade ashtray at least has a very strong make do trench art sensibility, and the brass looks very much to me like melted down shell casings. I really love its fat walled, amoeba like shape, and then these shiny silver shapes (aluminum I believe, and revealed to be one plate when turned over) that read a bit like landmasses with a river running through. Really an excellent object I think, perfect on the