This is a bronze cigarette box measuring 4 1/2" long, 4" wide, and almost 2" tall. It is stamped "Real Bronze" on the bottom as well as with their logo "Silver Crest Decorative Bronze SMAC." The inside compartment is designed to hold cigarettes and matches inside the lid and an ash tray (no longer included with the box) on the bottom.

Smith Metal Arts still operates today and according to their website (smithmcdonald.com) they "were founded in Buffalo, NY in 1889 by German immigrant and metal and leather goods craftsman Otto Heintz, as the Heintz Art Metal Company, who began as a manufacturer of desk blotters, pen and letter holders, envelope sealers and ink blotters, and later developed the first 'lay-flat' page type of desktop calendar base. Following Heintz’s death in 1919, the company....eventually evolved into the manufacture of 'designer' lines of desk and office accessories and accouterments."

Many Smith Metal Arts products crafted in an Art Deco motif or stamped with the SMA Silver Crest remain collector’s items today.

Condition is as shown in photographs.