Cigarette Ash Tray question

[rajiv]

Hi, new to this forum . Recently into collecting silver ware and came across this silver/silverplated? ash tray(?) with GEBR HEPP 3
on the bottom of the ashtray.

The ash tray is about 3.75 inches in diamete
it is silver or silver plated?
origins?

Thank you folks!

Raji

[paulp4180]

Not certain of any information on this, as its not my collecting sphere, but the company is still in existence:

History | HEPP – THE ART OF SERVICE

Marks of European Silver Plate: BOHRMANN, HARTMANN & HEPP, GERMANY

[drmessimer]

It's silver plate. Here is a short history of the company.
Hepp Gebrüder GmbH - Pforzheim
Founded by Carl and Otto Hepp in 1863 in Pforzheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. It produced silver-plated cutlery and table utensils for many renowned German hotels such as Hotel Frankfurter Hof (Frankfurt a/M, 1876), Hotel Ruf (Pforzheim, 1909), Hotel Adlon (Berlin, 1924), Hotel Deutscher Hof (Nuernberg, 1938), for the Bayreuth Festival Theater (1894), for the German Reichstag (Parlament, 1927), etc. In 1916, the company was sold to Albert Lange, and, in 1931, to Erich Frank, however, it continued to operate under the initial name. On February 23rd 1945, the plant and all its installations were destroyed, but six years later the factory was revived. In 1988 the GEBR HEPP factory was taken over by the famous company, Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory (WMF). In 2006 HEPP becomes a brand of proHeq GmbH. Dwight

[rajiv]

Thank you drmessimer interesting and informative.
any idea on the value they might bring retail?

[drmessimer]

rajiv; not the slightest, but it is a nice piece. Dwight