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Ashtray
Ashtray made of piece of elm salvaged from RRS 'Discovery' when she was paid off in St Katherine's Dock during July 1931. A round wooden ashtray with a central knob and four depressions on the edge to rest cigarettes. A narrow silver-plated metal circle is fastened inside. It is inscribed: 'R.R.S. DISCOVERY 1931'. The ashtray was presented to Commander Charles Reid R.A.N. who sailed as 4th Officer with Sir Douglas Mawson's 1929-31 Antarctic Expedition, on the homeward voyage to London.
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Object Details
| ID: | AAA4138 |
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| Collection: | Polar Equipment and Relics |
| Type: | Ashtray |
| Display location: | Display - Polar Worlds Gallery |
| Events: | Antarctic Exploration: British, Australian, New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1929-1931 |
| Vessels: | Discovery (1901) |
| Date made: | circa 1931 |
| People: | Reid, Charles |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 42 mm x 116 mm |