Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston Zuni This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcracker

This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcracker

has great finger joined corners on all sides

I've been thinking about this piece

or hung directly on the wall where it might be easily taken down and put into action

the top is just a bit bent on one corner and there is one tiny tear in the copper on the edge of the top where it folds over the body of the pitcher

Antique Copper Ashtray / Printing Plate of Rev. Edmund Squire, Boston Zuni This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcrackerThis is one of the most curious ashtrays I have encountered, with a very interesting history! Made of copper, at its center is the inscribed name backwards of "Rev. Edmund Squire." A bit of research informs me that Squire was the founder of the Pilgrim Church in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, who, on Nov. 2, 1862the second year of the Civil Warconvened 16 people at his Dorchester home to unite themselves into what they called an unsectarian Church