Collection Highlights

Castle Garden, New York City

Date:

1859

Object Number:

1972.13

Medium:

Oil on canvas (relined)

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Object name

Ashtray

Date

1920-1940

Medium

Plastic or Bakelite

Dimensions

3 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.

Description

This black ashtray of either early plasitc or bakelite has inscribed in gold at the top "Hotel Augustan" and at the bottom "Cobleskill, New York".

Credit Line

Gift of Bella C. Landauer

Object Number

2002.1.288

Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.