Q: In 1992, I bought this Art Nouveau gentleman’s ashtray stand from a shop in Orillia for $10. There was no ashtray with it and I’ve not yet found one. Do you think it would have been milk glass?

Readers with long memories for frustratingly future-distant Kickstarter projects might remember the Halopad. It was a “universal” iPad stand which I described generously as “like a pub ashtray with ...