Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston Zuni NH based ceramicist who has

NH based ceramicist who has been creating functional and sculptural work since the late 1970s

or hung directly on the wall where it might be easily taken down and put into action

A contemporary of Hagenauer

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 NH based ceramicist who hasThis 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