You are buying a metal ashtray, made in Italy, for the Pan Am Airlines lounge.  Back in the day when smoking and flying went hand in hand, this ashtray sat on the table of the Pan Am lounge at Kennedy airport while travellers, dressed to the nines, flicked their ashes and sipped their noontime martinis. This 5" square ashtray can hold your ashes or anything else that you want it to.