Identifier
2011-09-0117-001
Title
Brass Ashtray from Milne Bay
Type
Personal Belongings Cigarette / Cigar / Pipe / Cigarette Case / Tobacco pouch / Lighters / Matches
Description
Conical Brass ashtray with a disc to rest the cigarette on on the lip of the container. Engraved with palm trees, basic mountains, and 'Milne Bay 1943'. Coconuts are pale yellow.
Creator
, identified as 'Trench-craft' by donor
Coverage
Milne Bay 1943
Medium
metal
Format
208 x 49 mm
Provenance
Matron's" ashtray. Matron Lillian Grace Schaefer? Sehaefer? Visited/served in Morotai
Date
New Guinea
Audience
Case 70
Source
New Guinea
Date Created
Egypt
References
""tron's" ashtray. Matron Lillian Grace Schaefer? Sehaefer? Visited/served in Morotai