Business card holder/ashtray "Husband, don't make your wife angry!"

The original ashtray is in very good collector's condition. Porcelain. The factory of the "M. S. Kuznetsov Partnership". The dimensions are 140*110 mm. A wonderful gift for your significant other. Guarantee of authenticity. It's rare.

The presented item belongs to a series of pre-revolutionary porcelain and earthenware ashtrays with playful family and household inscriptions. The inscriptions are made in pre-revolutionary spelling. The phrases are mirrored to the spouses: "Wife! Don't anger your husband" and "Husband! Don't make your wife angry." The flat, intricately shaped trays were used as table ashtrays, matchbox stands, or business card holders. Some items are equipped with special elevations-stands, where a box of matches was installed. ""The idea of such playful souvenirs came to the Russian Empire from Western Europe (Austria and Germany), where at the end of the 19th century porcelain plaques with the motto "Mannigere Deine Frau nicht" ("Husband, do not anger your wife") were popular. The largest Russian porcelain manufacturers quickly picked up this commercial trend and adapted it for the domestic market.