1940 New York World's Fair, "House of Jewels": An American Silver and Enamel Cigarette Box, Tiffany & Co., New York, 1936

plain rectangular, the cover and body with blue and green champlevé enamel stripes terminating in simple scrolls, the inside cover gilt and engraved with art deco monogram FRM, interior of box lined in cedar

New York: World's Fair, 1940. Tiffany "House of Jewels"

Tiffany & Co. advertisement, Harper's Bazaar, September 1937, p. 1
Tiffany & Co. advertisement, New Yorker, December 1939, p. 1
Jewel Stern, Modernism in American Silver: 20^th-Century Design, Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2005, p.  98 (for a similar model).

very minor scratches to cover, enamel good, overall good condition
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This piece appears on a 1940 list in the Tiffany Archives of "Articles of Silverware To be exhibited by Tiffany & Co. at their exhibit in the House of Jewels, New York World's Fair."  The description given is "Silver box with lacquered decoration of green and blue," with a price of $63.00.