1930's Machine Age smoking stand

I ran across this piece in an old barn in Virginia

several years ago. According to family members

it was made by the owner's grandfather,

a machinist and pattern maker, in the  1930's

from scraps of heavy gauge copper and aluminum.

The glass ashtray has long been lost or broker, but the

piece is still a visual work of industrial art.

Dimensions are 28" by 16" by 9.5"