Place rest with puff of smoke
For Chekhov, it was the first strike eye on things, that he was ready to write a story for the day. Collectors can crash for it is clearly disproportionate amount of its status. Designers do not cease to create its new models. It can be seen even in homes where owners do not smoke. But for lovers of cigarettes, cigars or pipes it indispensable accessory smoking ritual. It is the Ashtray.
Purpose ashtrays clear to everyone, but how it can be expressed in different ways! For example, firefighters perceive it as a vessel for half hygienic shaking off waste arising in the process of smoking tobacco. She rescues from mud in the house and is the guarantor of the security of omnivorous fire. True, but the soul does not get those words.
More to the heart of romantics smoking accessories approached Philip Rosenthal, whose artistic studios for causing decor at the Porcelain Products in 1886, established the first in the world Ashtray. German businessman understood that a small plate with a square folded inside edges set on the table in the royal palace Hofskom (Bayern Munich), will cause many questions. Warning them, he withdrew in the center of dish Gothic font: "The place of rest for burning cigars" and for the clarity of images placed itself between the lines cigars.
The fears wizard Ashtray won wide popularity expressed in the diversity of species, forms and materials used for their construction.
Materials
The most traditional deemed Porcelain, crystal and glass ashtrays. They can be fully implemented as from these materials, and constitute a combination of porcelain or crystal with the noble metals.
Luxury looks ashy for cigars from STDUPONT made of Limoge porcelain, high jeweler separate brass and enamel, and 16 - and 23-karatnoy two-tiered gold-plated. No less effective Ashtray of the same type of company Quadri PROMETHEUS made of Italian porcelain and platinum coated paint.
Crystal is often combined with silver (model "Triangle" of OTTAVIANI) or nickel (“Horse" model of NEW WILLING, which was a round ash-tray, horse connected with the sculpture of the head).
The variety of colors and designs accessories to attract attention from the company PONYGLASS cigars made of glass and artistic Marble 24-karatnoy gold-plated. Apartments in its simplicity squared Ashtray for cigars from OLMECS combining in a massive transparent glass and metal finish.
