Ashtrays could be your nest egg
Check the pockets of antique collectors as they leave your pub after one described pub ashtrays as a collectible of the future.
By July smoking bans will be active in Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and England and branded pub ashtrays will become a thing of the past.
Like all things, if they stop being used they will pass into antiquity with the passage of timeAntiques writer Christopher Proudlove.
Antiques writer Christopher Proudlove told the Western Mail: "Like all things, if they stop being used they will pass into antiquity with the passage of time.
"They should be 100-years-old to be antiques, but, as they say, antiques get younger every day.
"It's only a matter of time before we see dealers and collectors specialising in smoking materials in general. "Pub ashtrays are still accessible and therefore still affordable.
"We should be investing in them. I don't think it's time to sell your collection and book a world cruise, but they will rise in value over time."
Proudlove recommends cut-glass or pottery ashtrays with the logo of a beer or cigarette brand.
He also suggest cigarette machines will become collectible.
