Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston Zuni 18" drop on strap

18" drop on strap

This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcracker

the long one is 4 1/8" long x 1 5/8" wide x 1 3/4" tall

I'd really love to meet the maker of this necklace

I've been thinking about this piece

Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston Zuni 18" drop on strapThis 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