{"id":377,"date":"2013-07-22T04:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T04:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=377"},"modified":"2013-07-22T04:19:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T04:19:45","slug":"world-war-i-victory-ash-tray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/t-a-gillespie-shell-loading-company\/world-war-i-victory-ash-tray\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I Victory Ash Tray"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Momentos \u2013 World War I Victory Ash Tray<\/h3>\n
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World War I \u201cVictory\u201d Ash Tray. Photo Courtesy of Mr. Robert \u201cNick\u201d McWhorter of Springfield, KY.<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition to the Victory Lamp made from \u201cunbruised\u201d 75mm artillery shells, Snead & Co. Iron Works of Jersey City, NJ offered another unique remembrance of those who lost their lives in the Morgan based T. A. Gillespie Loading Company explosion of 1918.\u00a0 Composed of the lower portion of the shell from just above the copper driving band, the ash tray also features an engraving commemorating the victory in Europe but with a slightly different order than the lamp.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also like the Victory Lamp and lamp shade, the ash tray was awarded a patent.\u00a0 Patent number 53,397 was filed on December 4, 1918 \u2013 exactly two months after the explosions which started on October 4<\/span>th<\/sup> \u2013 and awarded on June 3, 1919.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the majority of the text from the patent application:<\/p>\n

“Be it known that I, ANGUS S. MACDONALD, a\u00a0citizen of the United States, residing at Great Neck Station, in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented and produced a new, original, and ornamental Design for an Ash-Tray, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.<\/em><\/p>\n

My invention relates to an original design for ash trays and resides in the shape or form of the same being novel in its contour and in the arrangement of its ornamentation, as is clearly shown and fully illustrated in the annexed drawing…<\/em>“<\/p>\n

Thanks again to Mr. Robert \u201cNick\u201d McWhorter of Springfield, Kentucky for sharing photos of his grandfather\u2019s Victory Ash Tray with us!<\/p>\n

Originally posted on May 9, 2010.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Momentos \u2013 World War I Victory Ash Tray In addition to the Victory Lamp made from \u201cunbruised\u201d 75mm artillery shells, Snead & Co. Iron Works of Jersey City, NJ offered another unique remembrance of those who lost their lives in the Morgan based T. A. Gillespie Loading Company explosion of 1918.\u00a0 Composed of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":238,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions\/379"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}