What is this? Cinderella?

I found this item , it looks like brass, it's heavy. I searched everywhere on the internet and can't find nothing... Item is signed, but I even can't read that letters...

 

It is approximatelly 13 cm x 11 cm.

 

Did you mean writing on the front, here, or is there writing on the back??

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Bottom word is Budapest...uh, maybe not.

 

i never heard the cinderella story where she invited birds to feed at her stove..

 

I thought that too.

 

Now I think that bottom word is Budapest... thank you so much!

 

My 1st thought was "4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie"

 

Here is another example of the birds in the kitchen:


https://www.morphyauctions.com/jame...-original-cased-meerschaum-smoking-set-71195/

They may be portraying the Cinderella story:

"You, Cinderella?" she said. "You, all covered with dust and dirt, and you want to go to the festival?. You have neither clothes nor shoes, and yet you want to dance!"
However, because Cinderella kept asking, the stepmother finally said, "I have scattered a bowl of lentils into the ashes for you. If you can pick them out again in two hours, then you may go with us."
The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, "You tame pigeons, you turtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to gather:
The good ones go into the pot,
The bad ones go into your crop.
Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and finally all the birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around the ashes. The pigeons nodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, pick. And the others also began to pick, pick, pick, pick. They gathered all the good grains into the bowl. Hardly one hour had passed before they were finished, and they all flew out again."
https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html

 

neat........guess there's more to the story than i remember !!!!

 

Cinderella and the pigeons, drawing by Ludwig Emil Grimm (1790 - 1863)

 

So, maybe my item is ashtray?

 

Unfortunately, there is not much information about the meerschaum pipe case that I found. I thought it was interesting that there was another bronze/brass version of a similar scene. But I don't know that there is any reason to assume yours also relates to tobacco. I don't see any evidence of it having been used as an ashtray.

 

So, what you think? Is it worth anything?