OMGs, I think I found a real antique here!

[OldBaldy1701E]

I found this while going through some old boxes in my garage. I don't know, but it might be worth a lot of money? Maybe a museum might want it, I don't know!

What do you guys think? Have I struck the motherlode here?

[Marthe48]

1. What relic could that be?

[CTyankee]

2. We had one of those in my home growing up?

Those little grooves at the corner would hold your cigarette, while you sat around chatting, smoking and drinking highballs (my parents' fave was scotch and water and filtered cigarettes (maybe Pall Malls?). Those were the days, back in the 1950s when I was a little girl.

[OldBaldy1701E]

9. For my parents, it was bourbon and water or Coke, and Bel-air Kings. (n/t)

[CTyankee]

12. My mother lived to be 92 (daddy died at 80).

She quit smoking earlier. I smoked, too, in my late teens. UGH.

[OldBaldy1701E]

15. Dad never quit and made it to 72. He died in 2015.

(Not bad considering his lifestyle.)

Mother quit when I was ten and she is still with us.

[ms liberty]

3. If it was one of the classic mid century coffee table size pottery ashtrays

You could get 15 to 25 bucks for it. Mid century ashtrays are popular. People use them for candy dishes, jewelry dishes, etc.
That though, is your classic plain glass ashtray, so no, you did not hit the jackpot!

[OldBaldy1701E]

11. I wish I had the one my parents had.

It was heavy enough to use as a boat anchor!

[JMCKUSICK]

4. Rotflmao

I'm 3 years 1 month removed from that myself

[Faux pas]

5. I've got that beat!

I have a large round cut glass one that I keep my scrubber pads in under the sink. I can't remember what they're called!

[Ocelot II]

6. That's a real relic!

They were once commonplace; I wonder what happened to all of them? Maybe the same hole in the space-time continuum that sucked up the floppy disks and buttonhooks and carbon paper.

[CTyankee]

13. I remember when the Selectric typewriter was invented. We thought that was pretty awesome (pre-computer).

[Ocelot II]

14. Yes, that was fantastic technology at the time.

Especially the mechanism where you could backspace and correct! Brilliant!

[Bayard]

7. It would make an attractive dish to grow succulents in

[OldBaldy1701E]

10. True.

That would be a better use than the current one.

It holds screws and bolts and nuts when I am working on some electronic doo-hicky.

[fargone]

8. Worth its weight in glass, maybe 37 cents