Featured Pigs and gambling ashtray?

I thought this was so cool. At first glance I figured it was an ashtray but the slots are big. Does anyone know what the significance of the pig/hog is and what it has to do with gambling? This is so curious to me

thank you for your opinions

 

To be used to rest pipes in, not cigarettes.

I don't see a pig/hog.

Doesn't have to be gambling. Any card game could be played with a deck of cards.

 

@wiscbirddog There is an impression of a pig in the center of the bowl His snout is pointing towards the 12 mark in the top pic I wondered about pipes but wasnt sure how two would fit at the same time ty for helping

 

Cropped and rotated the 'pig', still not sure that is what the critter is. Perhaps a fox? Curious it is.

 

i see a pig...but that could be the makers ID..

 

that is pretty cool, I would have picked it up I can see the pig. Wonder why there is a key on it too? are the holes in the slots to stand up the pipe?
here is another ashtray with a pig in the centre, no mark to indicate where it was made

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ceramic-Ashtray-Pipe-and-Shamrock-and-Pig-/203061076694

 

Ooh!! Another weird one. I admit the close up could look like another animal as well.

 

Here's another. Most be a thing -- pigs & pipes.

Debora

 

As near as I can tell... Has to do with pipe dreams and the phrase "when pigs fly."

Debora

 

Not for a kosher home. LOL I have never seen anything like that before. Thanks for sharing.

 

All three pieces here look German to me, and the pig is a good luck symbol (Glücksschwein) there, often represented with a clover in its mouth, usually a 4-leaf...

~Cheryl

 

" pigs will fly , & the earth will fry .... when they catch me doing honest hours ! "

Snookeroo , R. Star .

just sayin...

 

The combination of things on it is just so intriguing lol I could not find anything remotely like it @Debora Sounds about right

ty e1 for the help

 

I like Cheryl's Glücksschwein idea. (And don't some German words just make you want to giggle?)

Debora

 

Or give ya a headache. Lol. So hard to pronounce