I love this ashtray! It's so beautiful and clean! You never have to see the cigarette buds in the ashtray nor have the wind blow all the ashes all over the place! I had seen these type of ashtrays in France being used in restaurants, but didn't have the chance to go to the Moroccan market to buy them! It was perfect finding it online and so inexpensive. I think it would have been more expensive and more difficult to pack In a suitcase, had I bought it there! I bought every size for different areas of the backyard and they're very useful and so different than your typical ashtray!