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Could pub ashtrays be tomorrow's antiques? 

As smoking is now prohibited in enclosed public places in Wales and Scotland, and will be soon in England and Northern Ireland, production of pub ashtrays has halted in the British Isles.

Antiques writer Christopher Proudlove said, "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.

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