Rare HALL China Match Holder Ashtray Claridge Hotel Pre - Casino Atlantic City
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Rare Vintage Collectable HALL China Ashtray - From Claridge's Hotel in Atlantic City
This auction is for a very rare HALL China Match Holder Ashtray from the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The edges are highlighted with gold trim. The center opening is designed to hold stick matches. Very good used condition with minimal signs of gold wear. No chips or scratches. Hall China's classic old round mark is shown on the bottom to attest to the age of this piece. This piece ...measures approximately 3-3/4" high with a base 5-1/4" by 4".
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DID YOU KNOW?The Claridge Hotel is a historic hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, opened in 1930. It operated for many years as a casino, known first as "Del Webb's Claridge Hotel and Casino", then the "Claridge Hotel and Casino". The hotel was acquired by Bally's on December 30, 2002. They ran the building as a hotel tower of Bally's Atlantic City, until February, 2014 when the property was acquired by TJM Properties of Clearwater, Florida, who returned the property to a stand-alone hotel.HistoryThe Claridge Hotel is different from most Atlantic City resorts, since it did not grow out of a modest boarding house. It was the idea of Philadelphia architect John McShain who designed the 24-story, 400-room hotel. Opened in 1930 during The Great Depression, the Claridge became the last of the great hotels built in Atlantic City near the Boardwalk; no new resorts rose in the city until the 1960s when a Howard Johnsons hotel was built along the boardwalk. Due to the hotel’s tall, slick, slender appearance it gained the nickname “The Skyscraper By The Sea".The Claridge was a successful hotel during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Marilyn Monroe was a special guest there in the 1950s when she was a judge of the annual Miss America Pageant. Despite Atlantic City’s downturn as a premier vacation resort in the 1960s, the hotel continued to operate and survived into the casino era.The Claridge Hotel, once known by its 1929 nickname “Skyscraper by the Sea”, radiates a breathtaking Manhattanesque design situated in the prime center of the Atlantic City’s boardwalk. One of the last remaining architectural masterpieces from the Boardwalk Empire Era, The Claridge Hotel housed such legends as Marilyn Monroe, Al Capone, Nucky Johnson, Princess Grace of Monaco and Frank Sinatra.Claridge Hotel - 1930 The Claridge Hotel opened in 1930, during the great depression. General Electric provided the Fountain of Light that was in the center of Brighton Park to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison. The Marlbourough hotel was at the left, and the Brighton hotel to the right. Marilyn Monroe stayed at the Claridge during the fifties when she was grand marshal of the annual Miss America Pageant. Other famous guests included Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Princess Grace of Monaco.
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This auction is for a very rare HALL China Match Holder Ashtray from the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The edges are highlighted with gold trim. The center opening is designed to hold stick matches. Very good used condition with minimal signs of gold wear. No chips or scratches. Hall China's classic old round mark is shown on the bottom to attest to the age of this piece. This piece ...measures approximately 3-3/4" high with a base 5-1/4" by 4".
Thanks for looking at my auctions.
DID YOU KNOW?The Claridge Hotel is a historic hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, opened in 1930. It operated for many years as a casino, known first as "Del Webb's Claridge Hotel and Casino", then the "Claridge Hotel and Casino". The hotel was acquired by Bally's on December 30, 2002. They ran the building as a hotel tower of Bally's Atlantic City, until February, 2014 when the property was acquired by TJM Properties of Clearwater, Florida, who returned the property to a stand-alone hotel.HistoryThe Claridge Hotel is different from most Atlantic City resorts, since it did not grow out of a modest boarding house. It was the idea of Philadelphia architect John McShain who designed the 24-story, 400-room hotel. Opened in 1930 during The Great Depression, the Claridge became the last of the great hotels built in Atlantic City near the Boardwalk; no new resorts rose in the city until the 1960s when a Howard Johnsons hotel was built along the boardwalk. Due to the hotel’s tall, slick, slender appearance it gained the nickname “The Skyscraper By The Sea".The Claridge was a successful hotel during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Marilyn Monroe was a special guest there in the 1950s when she was a judge of the annual Miss America Pageant. Despite Atlantic City’s downturn as a premier vacation resort in the 1960s, the hotel continued to operate and survived into the casino era.The Claridge Hotel, once known by its 1929 nickname “Skyscraper by the Sea”, radiates a breathtaking Manhattanesque design situated in the prime center of the Atlantic City’s boardwalk. One of the last remaining architectural masterpieces from the Boardwalk Empire Era, The Claridge Hotel housed such legends as Marilyn Monroe, Al Capone, Nucky Johnson, Princess Grace of Monaco and Frank Sinatra.Claridge Hotel - 1930 The Claridge Hotel opened in 1930, during the great depression. General Electric provided the Fountain of Light that was in the center of Brighton Park to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the invention of the light bulb by Thomas Edison. The Marlbourough hotel was at the left, and the Brighton hotel to the right. Marilyn Monroe stayed at the Claridge during the fifties when she was grand marshal of the annual Miss America Pageant. Other famous guests included Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope and Princess Grace of Monaco.
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