Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston basket As evident from the photos

As evident from the photos

I would use it for plenty of other things as well -- perhaps for an arranged nicoise salad

sophisticated

from Sandoval County in New Mexico

Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston basket As evident from the photosThis is one of the most curious ashtrays I have encountered, with a very interesting history! Made of copper, at its center is the inscribed name backwards of "Rev. Edmund Squire." A bit of research informs me that Squire was the founder of the Pilgrim Church in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, who, on Nov. 2, 1862the second year of the Civil Warconvened 16 people at his Dorchester home to unite themselves into what they called an unsectarian Church