Lapp Ashtrays

	Lapp Ashtray Style #1 Marking: (Ink) LAPP Colors: White Gray Pumpkin Dark chocolate Notes: The ink used to mark these ashtrays is generally black except for the dark chocolate ashtray in which case the ink is a tan color. From the side, these ashtrays look like a section of a line post.  The pumpkin glaze is typical of Lapp insulators in the late 1920s and was used at least until the middle 1940s since insulators bearing these dates and that glaze are fairly easy to find. This is the most common of Lapp insulators.
	Lapp Ashtray Style #2 Marking: LA [Lapp logo] PP (Note: The Lapp logo consists of of an L over an I in an oval) Color: Dark chocolate I believe this to be the earliest ashtray Lapp made.  It is identical to Style #1 except for the logo
	Lapp ashtray #3 Markings: (around rim)  INTERPACE * LAPP INSULATOR DIV. / THINK SAFETY Color: Sky gray with black lettering
	Lapp ashtray #4 Markings: (around bowl)  (arc) LAPP [Lapp logo of an L intertwined in an I with a circle around it] INTERPACE Color: Yellow with black lettering
	Lapp ashtray #5 Markings: (on side)  Lapp Chemical Porcelain (on back) [Blank or Name of Distributor] Distributors include:   O.R.Lawrence Co. J.R. SIMPSON & CO. CHICAGO R.W. FOX COMPANY NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA. H.A. REED COMPANY DETROIT Dimensions:   5-3/4" diameter 1-1/2" tall
	Lapp Ashtray #6 The Crown Jewels of the Wire of Sept. 1992 on page 7 shows an ashtray found by Bob Stahr at a Chicago area Salvation Army Store.  The ashtray is similar to numbers 1-4 shown above in that it has the two rings on the side and is a chocolate color.  In the center of the ashtray is an image of a suspension insulator string with attachment equipment to support two conductor cables. Around the rim of the ashtray is the markings "LAPP," "EHV TEST" and the signature of "William Shafer."  The September 1992 issue of Crown Jewels of the Wire on page 7, indicates Bob wrote to Lapp to find out about this insulator but Lapp suspected William Shafer was some customer of thiers.
	Lapp Ashtray #7 This is a grey glazed ashtray with a black ink marking: of LAPP / 1970 next to a lightning bolt with the letters HI-F:

Works Cited

Gish, Elton.  "Porcelain Insulator News."   Crown Jewels of the Wire  24.9 (September 1992): 5-14.

Gish, Elton.  "Porcelain Insulator News."   Crown Jewels of the Wire  25.9 (September 1993): 7-14.

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