Vintage 1920s singing head "For he's a jolly good fellow" novelty ashtray

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Vintage 1920s singing head "For he's a jolly good fellow" novelty ashtray Schafer & Vater? Superb porcelain novelty ashtray modelled as a comic head singing "For he's a jolly good fellow". Place cigarette in his open mouth and smoke comes out of his ears. Made in Germany in the 1920s probably by Schafer & Vater. Check out my other Smoking head also for auction this week on Ebay - buy more than one and save on postage Dimensions: Height 13.5 cms 5 1/4 inches Condition: Excellent condition:no chips,cracks or crazing.Painting in excellent order. Buyer Pays Postage £3.70 UK £7.50 Europe £16.50 Rest of World /schafer_vater_miscellaneous/schafer_vater_history.html History of Schafer & Vater Gustav Schaefer and Guenther Vater founded the Schaefer & Vater Porcelain Factory in Volkstedt Rudolstad, Thuringa, Germany in 1890 . Their aim was to make high quality porcelain. In 1896 the business had sufficiently grown to purchase the List Porcelain Factory at Neuhaus. By 1910 the American firm of Sears Roebuck & Company had begun to import and distribute Schafer & Vater pottery into the United States. The aim of Schafer & Vater was to produce a wide range of hard paste porcelain and was to include luxury items, figurines, and dolls' heads. They also produced soft paste porcelain in bisque items and Majolica and Jasperware were other read more
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