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Subiaco Museum > Records

ASHTRAY: WEMBLEY WARE, PURPLE, ROTARY SUBIACO, 1959

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Wembley Ware

1959

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Wembley Ware Collection

Overview

Grey/purple glazed, slip cast, triangular ashtray with grooves for 3 cigarettes and central depression. The top-side apex bears the Rotary International wheel in gold and blue, with '245th DISTRICT' underneath. At the base of the triangle on the topside there are two intersecting quadrangles the large of which contains the words 'A Welcome / FROM THE CENTRE OF / ROTARY FELLOWSHIP' and the smaller contains the words "Subiaco / 1959 ". The reverse is plain glazed in the same grey/purple with a deep clean foot, and the centre shows the crown with 'WEMBLEY - QUALITY WARE -' in a circle with a styalised 'WB' in the centre. There is also a gold underlined '1'.

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-2008.29

Item type

Material

Inscriptions and markings

Wembley Ware

Keywords

Rotary Club, Subiaco

Year

Statement of significance

Historical. Manufactured by a local company for Rotary International Subiaco district.

Public Location

OB.PRSN.S&T.1

Subiaco Museum

Subiaco Museum

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