This cast aluminium ashtray was made from the wreckage of the R38 airship salvaged from the Humber.i believe it was made by my grandfather H.Parker who was a blacksmith and lived in the hawthorne avenue area of west Hull It crashed during trials on the 21st august 1921.
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