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Ashtray

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/8cb0b487-39d9-4509-a150-017820466577
Collection
History Collection: Business & Industry
Object ID
2014.003.1
Date Range
1968
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Collection
History Collection: Business & Industry
Description
Commemorative ashtray of cast iron with a silvered, sand-textured finish. Oblong functional ashtray has large extension in shape of a porringer handle. This is cast with raised letters: "LAST/HEAT" and a centered date of "6 12 68". Below this is "POSEY IRON WKS./ LANCASTER PA" Apparently made as a memento of some unknown event designated by the words "LAST HEAT".
Date Range
1968
Made By
Posey Iron Works
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 3
Storage Cabinet
Unit 14
Subcategory
Household Accessory
Object Name
Ashtray
Material
Cast Iron, Paint
Length (in)
5.75
Width (in)
6
Depth (in)
0.75
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2014-05-06
Condition Notes
Some soil within ashtray and minor nicks with paint losses around top edges.
Object ID
2014.003.1
Place of Origin
Lancaster
Credit
Gift of Barbara Breneman. In Memory of Robert Posey Breneman.
Accession Number
2014.003
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Lancaster hand book : general data useful in connection with the design and fabrication of steel plate construction

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo4780
Edition
3rd ed.
Date of Publication
[19--]
Call Number
669.1 L243
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Responsibility
Lancaster Iron Works, Inc.
Edition
3rd ed.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster Iron Works, Inc.,
Date of Publication
[19--]
Physical Description
160 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Posey Iron Works, Inc. formerly Lancaster Iron Works, Inc., Lancaster, Pa.; handbook.
Includes index.
Subjects
Tanks.
Plates, Iron and steel.
Steel, Structural
Additional Corporate Author
Posey Iron Works, Inc.
Lancaster Iron Works, Inc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
669.1 L243
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