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started with ashtrays (it then expanded to include chips, postcards, matches, dice, lighters, decanters, cards, glassware, swizzle sticks, china, nylons and pantyhose, soaps, shampoo, slot glass, well...you get the idea! 
). I recently moved a file of ashtray pictures from our old computer (which wasn't on line) to this computer. Thought a few of you might enjoy seeing some of the trays... (this is where half of the readers will click their "back" button, because the post isn't chip related...but the subject line DOES say ashtrays... 
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These pictures were taken with our first digital camera...we didn't have a scanner...so aren't the best, but many of the ashtrays have been boxed up and haven't seen the light of day for a few years 
. Hope you enjoy them...
To see a lot of really awesome ashtrays, and to read some casino history, go here:
http://www.nevadacasinoashtrays.org
From the Horseshoe Club, downtown Las Vegas:
From the Elwell Hotel, downtown Las Vegas
For a few years, in the 1960s, Frank Sinatra owned the Cal Neva Lodge, at Lake Tahoe. The resort was popular with the celebrity crowd, and enjoyed a few very prosperous years. Unfortunately, Frank's underworld connections cost him his license.
I love the logo on this Railroad Pass ashtray
I miss this ashtray . My husband and I very very rarely sell anything from our collection, but we got an offer that we couldn't refuse.
Isn't this a fun logo? From the Nevada Hotel in Ely...still open, with a few table games in the basement last time we were there.
A safex ashtray (the brand name of this particular hexagon), with a bucaneer chick logo, from a downtown Las Vegas casino that opened in 1941, and was partially owned by Bugsy Siegel for a time. It doesn't get much better than that!
Well...this one might be a little better, because it's from the same casino, but it's a LOT rarer!
Thanks for looking...I hope you enjoyed the ashtrays!
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