Q: My grandma was cleaning out her cottage, getting it ready to be sold, and I came across an ashtray. When I looked closer, it turned out to have the Sleeping Beauty Castle on it. When I asked my grandma where it came from, she told me it belonged to my great grandma when they traveled to Disneyland. The question I want to ask is, when did they sell and stop selling ashtrays with the castle on it?
Chase, Pickering, Ontario, Canada
A: We know that there were metal and ceramic Disneyland ashtrays in the 1950s (a 1959 mail order catalog lists a porcelain smoker set with a cigarette box and two ashtrays for $1.25). By the 1960s, Disneyland had stopped selling ashtrays.
Dave Smith