Growing up my nana and pop had a lot of brass ornaments in their home. Pop had a lot of brass horseshoes as he loved the big cart/working horses. Anyhow, those needed cleaning and I remember her cleaning them.
One of the ornaments was an ashtray on a stand. After they passed away, my mam must have got it, and one year she brought it over for me, as I always loved it. I was looking at it the other day and thought it was looking ready to be cleaned. I probably cleaned it last June before my mother came over. Figured I would be in trouble if it wasn't cleaned when she came.........I know daft!!
So hunted out my Brasso and other cleaning things and got to work.
Now the one thing I loved to do as a child was put my feet on the bottom of the ashtray and move it back and forward like a pendulum. I can still here my nana shouting at me; "Our Gillian stop doing that!!" It still makes me smile.
So after a bit of wiping down it looks a little better.
I have no idea if it was ever used as an ashtray. My pop smoked a pipe. No one else smoked.
The one thing it was used for was to put your cup of tea or coffee on. That's why my mam put this coaster on it as well, to make it more stable. I have a coffee table by my seat so use it instead.
I hope one of the kids takes it after my day. Age wise it has to be at least 60 years old. I remember it as a small child and I will be 60 this year.
So there you go a good job jobbed for another six months and lots of lovely memories brought back for me to smile about.
