Months ago (seconds ago), I mentioned the San Francisco glass cutter named Lucchini who made that ashtray. What I didn’t mention is that Lucchini’s ashtrays were notoriously difficult to work with, especially those that somehow made it down the Pacific Coast Highway from home to the bright lights of Hollywood, where they lounged in the foreground of motion pictures, armed with contracts with clauses ensuring they could never be made to accept ashes.⠀