Ashtrays could be your nest egg

Check the pockets of antique collectors as they leave your pub after one described pub ashtrays as a collectible of the future.

By July smoking bans will be active in Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland and England and branded pub ashtrays will become a thing of the past.

Like all things, if they stop being used they will pass into antiquity with the passage of time​Antiques writer Christopher Proudlove.

Antiques writer Christopher Proudlove told the Western Mail: "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.

"We should be investing in them. I don't think it's time to sell your collection and book a world cruise, but they will rise in value over time."

Proudlove recommends cut-glass or pottery ashtrays with the logo of a beer or cigarette brand.

He also suggest cigarette machines will become collectible.