Large and heavy cigar ashtray – Crystal – Schneider France

2666 – important and heavy cigar ashtray – crystal – schneider france vintage, this important and heavy cigar ashtray in clear crystal signed schneider france in good condition. No cracks or chips with just micro-scratches from normal use. Outer edge with hot drawn pins with rounded edge with 2 notches. Signature engraved at the tip under the piece. Polished pontil trace. Beautiful light refraction. For non-smokers, it could be perfectly suitable as a storage compartment. Diameter 170mm X 74mm. Weight 2180 g. Very careful and tracked shipping. For information, this small glassworks purchased by the schneider brothers (ernest and charles) in 1911 in épinay-sur-seine (seine -saint-denis - france) will become the most important glassworks of the years 1926-1930 and will be rebuilt in 1949 on a new location. The sons (charles junior and robert-henri) took over the orders and the “glassworks” brand in “crystalleries” schneider. Wiped out by an explosion in 1957, the activity restarted in 1962 in a new location (loris in the loiret) and closed definitively in 1981.