Vintage~DEUTZ & GELDERMANN~Advertising Ashtray~Trinket Dish

Description

Very old ashtray as it bears the name Deutz & Geldermann before the company dropped the name Geldermann.  Nice color retention, some loss of gold trim.  Ashtray, dish measures 5 1/8" x 5 1/8".  The German words translate roughly to bottle fermentation procedure of sparkling wine production.
Deutz, formerly known as Deutz & Geldermann, is a Champagne producer based in the Aÿ region of Champagne. The house was founded in 1838 by William Deutz and Pierre-Hubert Geldermann and has since been run by successive generations of the Deutz and Geldermann families.