Cigarette holder
Accessories
Inventory number
2023.7.13.23.AC.OT.C1950.XXDescription
Cigarette holder with two parts. The first can be pushed down and of a gold colour with vertical zigzag lines all around. It is shaped like a cylinder with a smaller circumference at the bottom The second part is red. It is smaller than the other part starting from the middle but gets much larger and flatter at the end.Former personal belonging of Anna BAN KESZTENBAUM (1927 - 2021), Australian immigrant of Hungarian origin. Holocaust survivor, she was deported to Auschwitz but returned to live in Hungary after the war. She left the country to Canada after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and moved to Australia in 1963.
Materials
MetalBakelite
Origin
circa 1950Dimensions
Length : 0.9 cmHeight : 5 cm
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