From the collection: Pediatric Ashtray

Creepy

  This is truly disturbing piece of ceramics, found in a thrift shop ( thanks,  Deborah). It is a slipcast ashtray of amorphous form, with three indentations in the shape of imprints of baby feet at three stages of growth. There is no maker's mark, only a mold number. A label on the underside reveals that this was a promotional piece for a new product- "Similac with iron". I'm guessing this is from the 1950's. 

 The image of a doctor's waiting room full of kids, with their young mothers smoking and tapping ashes into the baby feet….just too creepy.

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