Vintage Sascha Brastoff Pin Dish or Ashtray of Navy War Ship

Vintage Sascha Brastoff pin dish with image of a Navy ship. Dish features a US Navy Destroyer hand-painted on the front with the letters “R E V E L L” spelled out on the signal flags. Revell is a maker of model automobiles, ships, planes and trains and this was perhaps made for the company to be given as a promotional gift. Signed SASCHA B on the front and has the ‘Rooster’ Mark and the Number 056A on the back.

Sascha Brastoff (October 23, 1918 – February 4, 1993) was an iconic mid-century designer who had a ceramics studio in the Los Angeles area from 1947 to 1963, after which he left his company due to ill health. The Sascha Brastoff Ceramics Factory, designed by architects A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Earl Emmons, was located at 11520 West Olympic Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Brastoff was the long-term romantic partner of Hollywood costume designer Howard Shoup.