This is a response a friend got when he asked about her "fantasy items."

Her sellar ID on Ebay is: reduntantgirl

Beware....She's phisty....or is it "fisty" TOUGH GIRL...I think I will stick with "fisty."

Mark,

I sent her a note last night....here is her response back to me that I
received today ;

What are you, the Nevada ashtray police? Haven't you got anything better
to do? You really should get a life my friend. Because you haven't seen
something before, it never existed? Give me a break. Several "know it
all" people like yourself with nothing else to do I guess have written to me
to tell me it is a piece of paper glued in from behind or lacquered over
into the bowl. Actually, it is a silkscreen or a reverse on glass
decal, not a piece of paper. It is fused to the glass from underneath and
then covered with a flat white protective coating which isn't an acrylic or
anything like that. Almost a rubbery type material and I don't know what it
is. I know it isn't an acrylic or anything made today. There were 7 more
good ones and two broken from the original box of 12 along with an invoice
form the manufacturer in the 1950s. I didn't put the quantity we had in the
description as I feared some collectors might back away if they thought
there was a quantity of them. And this is the last one as somebody has
already purchased all the others.MY COMMENT: "I hope they paid dearly."

It is possible that no example like this (until now) has ever surfaced.
That doesn't make it new or bogus. If you read the descriptions on my
casino paperweights that ended this morning (do a sold search) you will see
where we got these from a specialty advertising salesman and it is possible
he wasn't all that great of a salesman either or the Westerner backed out or
didn't like his product or the cost was wrong. Who knows what happened 60
years ago as you and I weren't there.

Out of the blue I get an email from somebody I don't know (you) telling
me he has collected for 20 years and then tells me to end or modify my
description implying I'm selling a fraudulent item. This is a $5 piece of
crap in my opinion as is any ashtray no matter how rare. Collecting
ashtrays has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. To me that
would be like collecting compressed pigeon droppings. Come on, making a
bogus ashtray? I'm amazed that somebody would go to all that effort to do
email me and even more amazing is I'm responding. Just because another
planet in the outer reaches of the solar system hasn't yet been spotted,
doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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