Eisenhower 1952 campaign ashtray/coaster brass from India: A mystery!

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Eisenhower 1952 campaign ashtray/coaster brass from India: A mystery!
A quite interesting Eisenhower campaign giveaway that was likely produced in a very small quantity in India. Did Ike want a campaign item made far outside the USA? Who produced it? An India native supporter of Eisenhower, maybe with a brass factory in the old country? The seller's uncle, whom it belonged to, told him something about it but he can't recall exactly what. If you know more, please share! (Antiques Road Show is likely still on Covid hiatus.)
Condition is good. The color element was most likely hand-applied. Measures 3 inches in diameter.
The
1952 United States presidential election
was the 42nd quadrennial
presidential election
. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952.
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower
won a landslide victory over
Democrat
Adlai Stevenson
, ending a string of Democratic Party wins that stretched back to
1932
.
Stevenson emerged victorious on the third presidential ballot of the
1952 Democratic National Convention
, defeating Kefauver, Senator
Richard Russell Jr.
of Georgia, and other candidates. The Republican nomination was primarily contested by Eisenhower, a general who was widely popular for his leadership in
World War II
, and conservative Senator
Robert A. Taft
of Ohio. With the support of
Thomas E. Dewey
and other party leaders, Eisenhower narrowly prevailed over Taft at the
1952 Republican National Convention
with
Richard Nixon
, a young senator from California, as his running mate. In the first televised presidential campaign Eisenhower, in sharp contrast to Stevenson, was charismatic and very well known.
Republicans attacked Truman's handling of the
Korean War
and the broader
Cold War
, and alleged that
Soviet
spies had infiltrated the U.S. government. Democrats faulted Eisenhower for failing to condemn Republican Senator
Joe McCarthy
and other reactionary Republicans who they alleged had engaged in reckless and unwarranted attacks, while Stevenson tried to separate himself from the unpopular Truman administration, instead campaigning on the popularity of the
New Deal
and stoking fears of another
Great Depression
under a Republican administration.
Eisenhower retained his enormous popularity from the war, as seen in his campaign slogan "I Like Ike". Eisenhower's popularity and Truman's unpopularity led to a Republican victory, and Eisenhower won 55.18% of the popular vote, carrying every state outside of the
South
, as well as Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas, states that had almost always voted for Democrats since the end of
Reconstruction
. Republicans also
won control
of both houses of Congress. [wikipedia}