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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Adrian Lewis, post: 2760540, member: 12565&quot;]Back to the OP ID, I suspect this is early 20thC. Glass ashtrays weren&#039;t at all prolific in the 19thC, if you can find any/many at all with cigar/cigarette supports. Some of the earliest ash trays with this kind of gambling motif and cigar supports were aroud the Depression Era. This quote from an ash tray collectors site. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AshtrayCollectors/posts/history-of-ashtrays-and-smokingby-nancy-wanvigamericans-in-the-1950s-smoked-over/584087581709462/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.facebook.com/AshtrayCollectors/posts/history-of-ashtrays-and-smokingby-nancy-wanvigamericans-in-the-1950s-smoked-over/584087581709462/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/AshtrayCollectors/posts/history-of-ashtrays-and-smokingby-nancy-wanvigamericans-in-the-1950s-smoked-over/584087581709462/</a></p><p>&quot;During the Great Depression years in the United States when people could not afford to</p><p>entertain outside the house, the game of bridge became very popular. Soon special ashtrays were designed for this and other card games. Promoters also used ashtrays with advertising on them as free premiums&quot;.</p><p>The ash tray is quite probably French as stated, as these 1920s French playing cards bear the almost identical motif on the &quot;clubs&quot; cards. </p><p><img src="https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/372442072962_/54662-Vintage-1920s-French-Playing-Cards-Jeu-Louis.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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