Carved Wooden Foot Shaped Ashtray with Copper Insert antique box or one white rose

or one white rose

but equally handy for earrings

This wonderful little solid brass duck lives most happily on a desk

Really just a lovely little piece

" Of course once the patent for Shredded What expired in 1912

Carved Wooden Foot Shaped Ashtray with Copper Insert antique box or one white roseI've found some other carved wooden feet like this one that served as ashtrays, but I haven't found one with a removable copper ashtray fitted and set on top. I think it is possible that the insert was custom made at a later date for this particular foot, which I found at an estate sale in Acton, MA in a house filled to the brim with a lifetime's accumulation with all sorts of wonderful things! I'd guess the foot itself is Southeast Asian in origin